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Native Speakers Worldwide

8,000-10,000

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Language Information By Source

Languages of Chitral
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

8,000-10,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

Almost all

More about speakers

"There is a possible estimate of 1500 speakers in Pakistan... [reports] would suggest a population of 6500 to 8500 speakers of Gawar-bati in Afghanistan. These are very rough estimations."

Year of info

1992

Location and Context

Countries

Pakistan, Afghanistan

Coordinates

35.310503, 71.550815

Location description

"The people who speak Gawar-bati live along the Kunar River, predominantly in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area near the village of Arandu in the Chitral District of Pakistan."

Government support

No data

Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

Positive

Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

"The people who speak Gawar-bati live along the Kunar River, predominantly in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area near the village of Arandu in the Chitral District of Pakistan."

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Pashto; Urdu; Khowar

Domains of other languages

School, bazaar, contact with police or government officials

More on context

"Urdu is the national language and the language prescribed for use in the schools in Pakistan [while] Pashto is the dominant second language in the Gawar area... Respondents indicated that their language is important for use with Gawar-bati speakers from other villages and is important for maintaining a sense of ethnic unity and identity."

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

9,500

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

No data

Coordinates

35.158,71.4083

Location description

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Government support

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Other writing systems

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Year of info

1994

Location and Context

Countries

Afghanistan, Pakistan, India

Coordinates

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Location description

Part of Nūrestān and adjacent areas along the Kabul river and its tributaries in the mountain region that encompasses northeastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and northwestern India

Government support

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Other writing systems

Part of Nūrestān and adjacent areas along the Kabul river and its tributaries in the mountain region that encompasses northeastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, and northwestern India

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The central subgroup is further subdivided into northern and southern groupings. The northern grouping includes Khowar (or Chitrali, Chitrari, Chatrori, Arniya) and Kalasha in the Chitral region. The southern grouping includes Tirahi, Gawar (or Gawar-bati, lit., “language of the Gawar people”), Katarkalai (or Wotapuri, referring to another dialect), Shumashti, Glangali (closely related Ningalami, reported in the literature but apparently no longer extant), and Pashai, a large group of extremely divergent dialects or closely related languages, in the southern part of Nūrestān and adjacent areas.

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More about speakers

Data gathered prior to the war

Year of info

2003

Location and Context

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Location description

Nishagam (Palazgor), Nari, Birkot, and Dokalam in the Kunar valley, and in Arandu

Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

Modified Perso-Arabic script

Other writing systems

Nishagam (Palazgor), Nari, Birkot, and Dokalam in the Kunar valley, and in Arandu

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

9,500

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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More about speakers

8,000 in Afghanistan. Population total all countries: 9,500.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Afghanistan; Pakistan

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Year of info

Location and Context

Countries

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Coordinates

35.204133, 71.553192

Location description

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Government support

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,500

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Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

Pakistan

Coordinates

No data

Location description

"Southern Chitral, Arandu, Kunar river along Pakistan-Afghanistan border"

Government support

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Institutional support

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

"Southern Chitral, Arandu, Kunar river along Pakistan-Afghanistan border"

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Native Speakers Worldwide

9,500

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