Khetrani language
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| Khetrani | ||||||
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| Spoken in |  Pakistan |
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| Native speakers | 4,000 (date missing) | |||||
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| ISO 639-3 | xhe | |||||
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Khetrani or Khetranki is an Indo Indo-European language.[1] It is spoken in north east Balochistan province in Pakistan. The population is speaking this language is 4,000.
Khetrani is member of the Lahnda group.[2] It can be classified into Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern zone, Lahnda. It is Influenced by the Balochi and Sindhi languages.
| “ | The Khetrans .It is certain that the whole of the triangular block of hill now occupied by the Marris was in the possession of Indian tribes before the Baloc invasion .They were gradually destroyed or absorbed by the Baloc from the south and the Afghans from the north and such names as Shahdedja among the Marris and Haripal among the Afghans to the north indicate that fragments of these tribes remain among the Baloc and the Afghans .The Khetrans however between the Afghan and the Baloc have preserved their identity and their peculiar Indian dialect (of the Sindhi type) to the present day .[3] | ” |
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Linguist List - Description of Khetrani". linguistlist.org. http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=xhe. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
- ^ "Linguistic Lineage for Khetrani". www.ethnologue.com. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=xhe. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
- ^ E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936 By M. Th. Houtsma, A. J. Wensinck page 631
