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Nuristani languages

LC control no.sh 90000034
LC classificationPK7050 PK7055
Topical headingNuristani languages
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Variant(s)Kafiri languages
See alsoAfghanistan--Languages
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India--Languages
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Indo-Iranian languages
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Pakistan--Languages
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Found inWork cat.: Ėdelʹman, D.I. The Dardic and Nuristani languages, 1983: p. 13 (... spoken by the population of Nuristan, a mountainous area in northeastern Afghanistan, as well as by the inhabitants of northern Pakistan and India's extreme northwestern area ...) p. 16 (Nuristani languages appear as an independent genetical group which split away from the Indo-Iranian parent-language in the distant past ...) pp. 18-19 (Nuristani languages: Katai ... Waigali, Ashkun ... Prasun ... Dameli ... is the link between the Nuristani and the central Dardic subgroup.)
Voegelin lang.: pp. 265-266 (Nuristani=Kafiri, both the Nuristani and Dardic group have been reclassified in recent years; the Dardic languages are now grouped among Indic languages, while Nuristani has been given the status of a separate branch within Indo-Iranian)
Curr. trends ling.: v. 5, pp. 284-300 (referred to as Kafir languages in article on Dardic languages)
Ethnologue: p. 427ff (Classifies several languages in Afghanistan as Nuristani)
Not found inRuhlen