Supporting and celebrating global linguistic diversity
Classification: Indo-European
|
Sawi, Sauji, Sau, Dardu |
||
|
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern Zone |
||
|
ISO 639-3 |
||
|
sdg |
||
As csv |
||
Information from: “Dardic” (818-894) . Elena Bashir (2003) , George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain · London & New York: Routledge
Information from: “Dardic” (818-894) . Elena Bashir (2003) , George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain · London & New York: Routledge
Since the war in Afghanistan, Sawi speakers have been dispersed in refugee camps in Chitral and Dir, and their present number is not known. In 1992 the number of speakers was estimated at 200 households (8000-12000 people).
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
3,000 in Afghanistan
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: “Glottolog” .
Information from: “Languages of Chitral” (xxii+257) . Decker, Kendall D. (1992) National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University and Summer Institute of Linguistics
"Knowledge of the language of Sau, Afghanistan, is not very complete... In August 1989, two men from Sau were interviewed for this study for a few hours one day in Drosh... The respondents said that since the war in Afghanistan all the people of Sau have moved to either the refugee camp near Kalkatak in Chitral or a refugee camp near Timargarha in Dir. A few are also reported to be living in a refugee camp between Drosh and Chitral town in Chitral District... The Sawi-speaking participants involved in this study estimated that before the war there had been 2000 homes accounting for 8000 to 12,000 people."