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Pashayi or Pashai is a group of languages spoken by the Pashai people in parts of Kapisa, Laghman, Nuristan, Kunar, and Nangarhar Provinces in Northeastern Afghanistan. It belongs to the Dardic branch of the Indo-Aryan languages. Most speakers are bilingual in Pashto with a literacy rate of about 25%, with the Pashayi languages having no written form prior to 2003. There are four mutually unintelligible varieties, with only about a 30% lexical similarity:〔 * Northeastern: Aret, Chalas (Chilas), Kandak, Kurangal, Kurdar dialects * Northwestern: Alasai, Bolaghain, Gulbahar, Kohnadeh, Laurowan, Najil, Nangarach, Pachagan, Pandau, Parazhghan, Pashagar, Sanjan, Shamakot, Shutul, Uzbin, Wadau dialects * Southeastern: Damench, Laghmani, Sum, and Upper and Lower Darra-i-Nur dialects * Southwestern: Ishpi, Isken, Tagau dialects A grammar of the language was written as a doctoral dissertation in 2014.〔Lehr, Rachel. 2014. ''A descriptive grammar of Pashai: The language and speech of a community of Darrai Nur.'' Phd dissertation, University of Chicago.〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pashayi languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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