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There are 9,000 speakers of Gawar-Bati, but only 1,500 are in Pakistan . The rest are in Afghanistan .



The Gawar-Bati Language has not been given study by serious linguists, except that it is mentioned by George Morgenstierne (1926) and Kendall Decker (1992). It is classified as a Dardic Language but this is more of a geographical classification than a linguistic one.

The Norwegian Linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are spoken here. These include Kalasha , Phalura , Dameli , Gawar-Bati , Nuristani , Yidgha , Burushaski , Gujar , Wakhi , Kyrgyz , Persian and Pashto . Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in Urdu or Persian .


BOOKS


  • Decker, Kendall D. (1992) Languages of Chitral ISBN 9698023151 http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=32850


  • Morgenstierne, Georg (1926) Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan. Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie C I-2. Oslo.


  • Khowar English Dictionary (by Mohammad Ismail Sloan , 1981) ISBN 0923891153 published in Pakistan, reprinted in 2006



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