Adurgari
| Adurgari | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Shaikh Mohammadi tribe |
| Setting and usage | trade |
| Purpose |
secret cant |
| Sources | perhaps Kohistani |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
None (mis) |
| Glottolog |
adur1234[1] |
Adurgari (ادرغارى) is a secret cant of the nomadic Shaikh Mohammadi tribe of peddlers of Afghanistan, used especially in the presence of outsiders.[2] It is not a native language but is taught to children around age seven; all adults speak it in addition to Persian and Pashto. It contains a mixture of words, but resembles Kohistani of Pakistan.[3]
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Adurgari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ "Encyclopedia Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia" (Vol. 1, A 1) edited by R. Khanam
- ↑ David Phillips, 2001, Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World