Shumashti language
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| Shumashti | ||||||
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| Spoken in | Afghanistan | |||||
| Region | Kunar Province | |||||
| Native speakers | 1,000 (1994) | |||||
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| ISO 639-3 | sts | |||||
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Shumashti – also known as Shumasht – is a language spoken in parts of western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan.
It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Dardic group of the Indo-Iranian branch.
It was spoken by an estimated 1,000 people in 1994 on the western side Kunar River 60 miles up from Gawar-Bati. Literacy rates are low: below 1% (less than 10) for people who have it as a first language, and between 15% to 25% (between 150 and 250) for people who have it as a second language.
It has a lexical similarity of 63% with Nangalami and 47% with Gawar-Bati. It has been heavily influenced by Pashayi.
[edit] References
- Shumashti. Retrieved June 14, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.
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