Badeshi language

Badeshi
(unattested)
Region	Bishigram (Chail) Valley
Ethnicity	2,800 (2000)^[1]
Extinct	for at least 3 generations^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indic Dardic? Badeshi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bdz`
Glottolog	`bade1240`^[2]

Badeshi is a purported but unattested Indo-Iranian language spoken in Pakistan.^[2] Its distinctiveness is unconfirmed; it may simply be a family name. It has not been spoken for at least three generations.^[1]

Muhammad Zaman Sagar, a field linguist, has worked on this language. But as a result of his research during two years, he has collected only about one hundred words. In July 2007 he visited the Bishigram valley again and spent some days with the people there.

References

1 2 3 Badeshi at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
1 2 Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Badeshi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

External links

The Badeshi People in Bishigram and Tirat valley, Swat

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