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ALSO KNOWN AS		Chiliss, Galos, Dardu, Chiliso
CLASSIFICATION		Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern Zone
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		clh
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Information from: “Language policy, multilingualism and language vitality in Pakistan” (73-106) . Tariq Rahman (2006) , Anju Saxena and Lars Borin · Mouton de Gruyter

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000-3,000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1992

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

MORE ON VITALITY

"Under great pressure by Shina. According to Hallberg, ‘A point which further underscores the idea that language shift is taking place in this community is the fact that of the thirteen individuals who were asked, four said that they spoke Chilisso in their home as a child but speak Shina in their home today’ (Hallberg in SSNP Vol. 1, 1992: 122-123)."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Shina

PLACES: Pakistan

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Koli, Palas, Jalkot Indus Kohistan"

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
Several thousand
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Pakistan

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: East bank of the Indus in District Kohistan

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,300
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1992).

PLACES: Pakistan

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000
Native speakers worldwide

	Routledge Language Family Series		2003	Dardic	The Indo-Aryan Languages	818-894	George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain	London & New York: Routledge			Elena Bashir	Bashir, Elena. 2003. "Dardic." In The Indo-Aryan Languages, edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain. 818-894. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD	Several thousand		1000-9999			Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Pakistan	East bank of the Indus in District Kohistan
0199255911			2005	The World Atlas of Language Structures			Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer	Oxford University Press	New York			2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
		16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	2,300		1000-9999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1992).		Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Pakistan
			2006	Language policy, multilingualism and language vitality in Pakistan	Lesser-known languages of South Asia: status and policies, case studies and applications of information technology	73-106	Anju Saxena and Lars Borin	Mouton de Gruyter	Berlin		Tariq Rahman	Tariq Rahman. 2006. "Language Policy, Multilingualism and Language Vitality in Pakistan." In Lesser-known languages of South Asia: status and policies, case studies and applications of information technology, edited by Anju Saxena and Lars Borin. 73-106. Mouton de Gruyter.		2,000-3,000	1992	1000-9999		Shina	Threatened (40 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	"Under great pressure by Shina. According to Hallberg, ‘A point which further underscores the idea that language shift is taking place in this community is the fact that of the thirteen individuals who were asked, four said that they spoke Chilisso in their home as a child but speak Shina in their home today’ (Hallberg in SSNP Vol. 1, 1992: 122-123)."	12	Pakistan	"Koli, Palas, Jalkot Indus Kohistan"
		3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	2,000		1000-9999			Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					35.2136,73.2396
				Glottolog						http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/		"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.												35.280275, 73.295122
				World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		2,000		1000-9999			Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Chilisso

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Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,000-3,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

Several thousand

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,300

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,000

Discussion

Chilisso

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,000-3,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

Several thousand

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,300

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,000

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2,000

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