Alternate Names: Pashai
Dialects: Ishpi, Isken, Tagau. Not intelligible of other Pashayi languages. Lexical similarity: Less than 30% with other Pashayi languages.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 100,000 (2011 SIL).
Language Development: Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%.
Typology: SOV.
Writing System: Unwritten
Nation of Origin: Afghanistan
Other Comments: Pashayi peoples have rich folklore and songs preserved by oral tradition. Muslim (Sunni).