Pashayi, Southwest

PSH

vigorous

Alternate Names: Pashai

Dialects: Ishpi, Isken, Tagau. Not intelligible of other Pashayi languages. Lexical similarity: Less than 30% with other Pashayi languages.

Genealogy:

Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Northwestern zone
Dardic
Pashayi

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).