Domaaki language
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| Domaaki | ||||
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| Spoken in: | Pakistan | |||
| Region: | Hunza Valley | |||
| Total speakers: | 500 (1989) | |||
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Dardic Shina Domaaki |
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| Official status | ||||
| Official language in: | none | |||
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |||
| ISO 639-2: | none | |||
| ISO 639-3: | dmk | |||
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Domaaki - also known as Dumaki or Doma - is a language spoken in parts of northern Pakistan.
It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Dardic group of the Indo-Iranian branch.
It was spoken by an estimated 500 people in 1989 by a people known as 'Bericho', 'Dom' or 'Doma', who are largely Muslim.
It is spoken in the northern parts of the Gilgit District of Pakistan, mainly in a few villages in the Hunza Valley.
[edit] References
- Domaaki. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.
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