Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan
| Shumashti |
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| Native to | Afghanistan |
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| Region | Kunar Province |
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Native speakers | (1,000 cited 1994)[1] |
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| Language codes |
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| ISO 639-3 | sts |
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| Glottolog | shum1235 |
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| ELP | Shumashti |
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Shumashti – also known as Shumasht – is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in eastern Afghanistan. It is spoken in parts of Kunar Province: on the western side of the Kunar Valley between Jalalabad and the Pech Valley. The number of speakers was estimated at 1,000 in 1994.[2]
It has been influenced by the Northeast Pashai languages, and it is related to the Grangali language, with which it shares about a third of its basic vocabulary, and to Gawar-Bati, with which it has about half of its basic lexis in common.[2]
References
- ^ Shumashti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b Shumashti language at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
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| Shina | |
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Kamarupa | | Bengali | |
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| Odia | |
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