Adurgari
| Adurgari | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Shaikh Mohammadi |
| Setting and usage | trade |
| Purpose | secret cant |
| Sources | local varieties of Persian?[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | adur1234 |
Ādurgari is a secret language of the nomadic Shaikh Mohammadi group of peddlers of east Afghanistan, used especially in the presence of outsiders. It is taught to children starting at the age of six or seven; all adults speak it in addition to their native Dari.[2]: 36 The name is apparently derived from a word referring to their activity of peddling (ādur), and Pstrusinska has tentatively suggested this might indicate a possible connection with the Harduri people of Uzbekistan.[1]
The following five words are attested in the language: čamlai 'bread', danab 'girl, woman', duka 'house', lām 'meat', and rašuk 'man'.[3]
References
- ^ a b Pstrusinska, Jadwiga (2013). Secret languages of Afghanistan and their speakers. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 36–37. ISBN 978-1-4438-6441-1.
- ^ Olesen, A. (1987). "Peddling in East Afghanistan: Adaptive Strategies of the Peripatetic Sheikh Mohammadi". In Rao, Aparna (ed.). The Other Nomads: Peripatetic Minorities in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Cologne: Böhlau. pp. 35–63. ISBN 3-412-08085-3. Rao (1986) additionally mentions Pashto as being spoken.
- ^ Rao, Aparna (1995). "Marginality and language use: the example of peripatetics in Afghanistan". Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. 5 (2): 69–95.