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Dardic languages

The Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca), also known as Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan languages, is an areal group of several northwestern Indo-Aryan languages spoken in northern Pakistan, northwestern India and northeastern Afghanistan. Rather than close linguistic or ethnic relationships, the term Dardic is a geographical concept, denoting the…

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Geographic distribution
Northern Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir) Northwestern India (Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh) Northeastern Afghanistan (Kapisa, Kunar, Laghman,…
Glottolog
None dard1244 Eastern Dardic
Linguistic classification
Indo-IranianIndo-AryanDardic · Indo-AryanDardic · Dardic
Subdivisions
Kashmiri · Shina · Kohistani · Chitral · Pashai

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Dardic languages

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Dardic languages

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related to Subdivisions · 22
Dardic languages → Bateri, Brokskad, Chilisso, Dardic, Gawri, Gawro, Indus Kohistani, Kalkoti, Kashmiri, KishtwariShina, Kohistani Shina, Kundal Shahi, Maiya, Mankiyali, Palula, Poguli, Savi, Shina, Tirahi, Torwali
related to Dardic metathesis and other changes · 18
Dardic languages → Ashokan, BCE, Both, Classical Sanskrit, Dardic, Dogri, Emperor Ashoka, Examples, Gandhara, Kashmiri, Modern-day Kalasha, Palula, Persian, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, This, Western Pahari
related to history · 14
Dardic languages → Afghanistan, Dardic, Georg Morgenstierne, George Abraham Grierson, Grierson's, However, Indo-Aryan, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Kafiri, Kashmir, Leitner's Dardistan, Nuristani, Pakistan
related to Bibliography · 12
Dardic languages → Allied Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Colin, Encyclopaedia, ISBN, Issues, Koul, Linguistic Sciences, Omkar, The Indo-Aryan Languages, Theories, Vennelakanti Prakāśam
related to Verb position in Dardic · 12
Dardic languages → All, Dardic, Dutch, German, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Kashmiri, Northeast Caucasian Ingush, SOV, This, Unique, Uto-Aztecan O'odham
related to Classification · 11
Dardic languages → As, Both, Dardic, Far-Northwestern Indo-Aryan, Georg Morgenstierne's, Henrik Liljegren, Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan, In, Indo-Aryan, Mock, Richard Strand
related to Loss of voiced aspiration · 11
Dardic languages → Dardic, Hindustani, Kashmiri, Khowar, Pashai, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tonality, Urdu, Virtually, Western Pahari
Subdivisions · 6
Dardic languages → Chitral, Kashmiri, Kohistani, Kunar, Pashai, Shina
Linguistic classification · 3
Dardic languages → Dardic, Indo-AryanDardic, Indo-IranianIndo-AryanDardic
Geographic distribution · 1
Dardic languages → Northern Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir) Northwestern India (Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh) Northeastern Afghanistan (Kapisa, Kunar, Laghman,…

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dardic languages indo-aryan kashmiri linguistic sanskrit term pakistan spoken khowar also dardistan morgenstierne indo-iranian pashai nuristani northern geographical afghanistan kohistani

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Dardic languagesGeographic distributionNorthern Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir) Northwestern India (Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh) Northeastern Afghanistan (Kapisa, Kunar, Laghman,…1.00infobox
Dardic languagesGlottologNone dard1244 Eastern Dardic1.00infobox
Dardic languagesLinguistic classificationIndo-IranianIndo-AryanDardic1.00infobox
Dardic languagesLinguistic classificationIndo-AryanDardic1.00infobox
Dardic languagesLinguistic classificationDardic1.00infobox
Dardic languagesSubdivisionsKashmiri1.00infobox
Dardic languagesSubdivisionsShina1.00infobox
Dardic languagesSubdivisionsKohistani1.00infobox
Dardic languagesSubdivisionsChitral1.00infobox
Dardic languagesSubdivisionsPashai1.00infobox
Dardic languagesSubdivisionsKunar1.00infobox
Dardic languagesrelated to BibliographyKoul0.60section

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