Domaaki
[aka Dawudi, Dumaki, Dumākī]Classification: Indo-European
·severely endangered
Classification: Indo-European
·severely endangered
Dawudi, Dumaki, Dumākī, "Doma", Dardu |
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Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern Zone |
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Information from: “Language Shift in Northern Pakistan: The Case of Domaakí and Pashto” (43-56) . Matthia Weinreich (2010)
The traditional occupations of the Domaaki speakers are blacksmiths and musicians.
Due to their ethnicity, the Domaaki have a lower social status and are generally discriminated by their surrounding society. In order to purse a better opportunity for education or occupation, the Domaaki tend to hide or give up their own group identity.
"[I]t is even officially approved by Dooma community leaders in Hunza, who already in the 1990s actively encouraged young and old to use the local majority tongue while talking to each other." (Weinreich 2010: 52)
Burushaski; Shina; Urdu
mainly Mominabad in the Hunza valleys and Domyaal in the Nager valley of northern Pakistan
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Language policy, multilingualism and language vitality in Pakistan” (73-106) . Tariq Rahman (2006) , Anju Saxena and Lars Borin · Mouton de Gruyter
Mominabad (Hunza & Nagar)
Information from: “Glottolog” .