PASHAYI LANGUAGE

'Pashayi' - also known as 'Pashai' - is a language (or a group of languages) spoken in parts of southwestern Afghanistan.
It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Dardic group of the Indo-Iranian branch.
It was spoken by over 216,842 people who are predominantly Muslim. Literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as a first language, and between 15% to 25% for people who have it as a second language.
There are four main varieties, which are all mutually unintelligible: the Northeastern, the Northwestern, the Southeastern and the Southwestern.

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★ Pashayi. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World'', fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.