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Khowar (کھوار), also known as Chitrali, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic branch, spoken by 400,000 people in Chitral
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the Ghizer district of Gilgit-Baltistan, and in parts of Upper Swat. Speakers of Khowar have also
migrated heavily to Pakistan's major urban centres with Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, having sizeable populations.
It is spoken as a second language in the rest of Gilgit and Hunza. There are believed to be small numbers of Khowar speakers
in Afghanistan, China, Tajikistan and Istanbul. Khowar has been influenced by Iranian languages to a greater degree than other
Dardic languages, and less by Sanskrit than Shina or the Kohistani languages. John Biddulph (Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh) was
among the first westerners to study Khowar and claimed that further research would prove Khowar to be equally derived from
Zend and Sanskrit. 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-mondr, Palula, Dameli, Gawar-Bati, Nuristani, Yidgha, Burushaski, Gojri, Wakhi, Kyrgyz, Persian and Pashto.
Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in Urdu, Pakistan's national language. |
Names (more)[ar] كهوار[br] Kowareg [de] Khowar [en] Khowar language [fi] Khowarin kieli [fr] Khowar [hi] खोवार भाषा [ja] コワール語 [nn] Khowar [no] Khowar [pl] Język khowar [pt] Língua khovar [ru] Кховар [ta] கோவார் மொழி [th] ภาษาโควาร์ [ur] کھووار |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : khwLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/khwhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:khw More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: khwFreebase ISO 639-3 : khw GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |