Parachi | |
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Spoken natively in | Afghanistan |
Region | Kabul |
Ethnicity | 6000 |
Native speakers | 600 (date missing) |
Language family |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | prc |
The Parachi Language is a member of the Southeastern branch of the Eastern Iranian languages,[1] but attempts to classify Parachi in the Northwestern Iranian languages have also been made.[2] Parachi is spoken by some 600 individuals of the Paracha ethnic group in Afghanistan mainly in the upper part of Nijrab watershed (north of Kabul), out of a total ethnic Parachi population of some 5,000. It is related to the Ormuri language of Kaniguram in South Waziristan, Pakistan.
See also
References
- ^ Nicholas Sims-Williams, Eastern Iranian languages, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, 2010
- ^ Ethnologue report for Iranian
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