Dardic languages

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
שפות דרדיות
Name (Latin)
Dardic languages
Name (Arabic)
اللغات الدردية
Other forms of name
Dardu languages
Kafir languages (Kafiristan)
nne Pisacha languages
See Also From tracing topical name
Indo-Aryan languages, Modern
See Also From tracing place name
Afghanistan
India
Pakistan
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q161101
Library of congress: sh 85102449
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Ėdelʹman, D.I. The Dardic and Nuristani languages, 1983:p. 13 (Spoken in ... Nuristan, a mountainous area in northeastern Afghanistan, as well as by the inhabitants of northern Pakistan and India's extreme northwestern area ...) p. 18ff (Dardic languages are divided into two subgroups--the central and eastern. The central group includes: Khowar, Kalasha, Gawar, Shumashti, Katarkalai, Glangali, Pashai dialects, and Tirahi. The eastern group includes: Bashkarik, Torwali, Maiyan, Shina, Phalura, and Kashmiri)
  • Voegelin lang.:p. 165, Dardic, under Indic (lists 15 languages under Dardic; states that Dardic languages are definitely Indic rather than Iranian ...)
  • Curr. trends ling.:v. 5, pp. 284-306 (article on Kashmiri and other Dardic languages. Note: this article was publ. in 1969; Edelman is one of the primary authorities in this area, and his book was publ. in 1983)