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Dardistan refers to a linguistic area where Dardic languages are spoken. The terms "Dardic" and "Dardistan" are not indigenous to the region, and were coined by Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner. The legitimacy of the term has been called into question. [1] The region also includes a number of non-Dardic peoples and languages. [2]
There is no ethnic unity among the speakers of these languages nor can the languages be traced to a single ancestor. [9] [10] [11] [6] After further research, the term "Eastern Dardic" is now a legitimate grouping of languages that excludes some languages in the Dardistan region that are now considered to be part of different language families ...
Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Brezhoneg; Čeština; Deutsch; Ελληνικά; Esperanto
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Dardistan in 1866, 1886 and 1893 : being an account of the history, religions, customs, legends, fables and songs of Gilgit Chilas, Kandia (Gabrial) Yasin, Chitral, Hunza, Nagyr and other parts of the Hindukush; as also a suppl. to the 2. ed. of The Hunza and Nagyr handbook and an epitome of p. 3 of the author's "The languages and races of ...
Main areas of Northeast Caucasian languages. The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestani or Vainakh-Daghestani, or sometimes Caspian languages (from the Caspian Sea, in contrast to Pontic languages for the Northwest Caucasian languages), is a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia and in Northern Azerbaijan as ...
Many local languages are dialects and/or endangered. [Note 1] [5] Dari, as a shared language between multiple ethnic groups in the country, has, historically, served as a lingua franca between different groups in the region, and is the most widely understood language in the country.
An online dictionary of Sanzhi Dargwa (in Dictionaria), by Diana Forker; Appendix:Cyrillic script; Dargin language (in Russian) Consonant Systems of the North-East Caucasian Languages; Dargwa basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database; Sanzhi Dargwa DoReCo corpus compiled by Diana Forker and Nils Norman Schiborr. Audio recordings of ...