Shumashti language
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| Shumashti | ||||
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| Spoken in: | Afghanistan | |||
| Region: | Kunar Province | |||
| Total speakers: | 1,000 (1994) | |||
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Dardic Shumashti |
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| Official status | ||||
| Official language in: | none | |||
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |||
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |||
| ISO 639-2: | none | |||
| ISO 639-3: | sts | |||
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Shumashti - also known as Shumasht - is a language spoken in parts of western Afghanistan.
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 1,000 people in 1994 on the western side Kunar River 60 miles up from Gawar-Bati. Literacy rates are low: below 1% (less than 10) for people who have it as a first language, and between 15% to 25% (between 150 and 250) for people who have it as a second language.
It has a lexical similarity of 63% with Nangalami and 47% with Gawar-Bati. It has been heavily influenced by Pashayi.
[edit] References
- Shumashti. Retrieved June 14, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.
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