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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 ...
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]
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[12] [13] They are also known as the 'Shin' because of their language, 'Shinna,' which is part of the Dard group of languages in the non-Sanskritic Indo European family. [14] They are also believed to have come from the Dardistan. Despite professing the Sunni faith, they maintain certain customs brought with them from their original home. [15]
The Kunza and Nagyr handbook being an introduction to a Knowledge of the language. Calcutta 1889. 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, Aagyr, and other parts of the Hindukush, Reprint der Ausgabe Woking ...
The Dargin languages consist of a dialect continuum of over 60 [3] Northeast Caucasian languages or dialects spoken by the Dargin people in southcentral Dagestan. Kajtak , Kubachi , Itsari , Mehweb and Chirag are often considered dialects of the same Dargin/Dargwa language .
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 ...
Dargwa is part of a Northeast Caucasian dialect continuum, the Dargin languages. The other languages in this dialect continuum (such as Kajtak, Kubachi, Itsari, and Chirag) are often considered variants of Dargwa, but also sometimes considered separate languages by certain scholars. Korjakov (2012) concludes that Southwestern Dargwa is closer ...