Kalash language

Kalasha
Kalasha-mondr
Native to	Pakistan (Chitral District)
Region	Chitral: Bumburet, Rumbur and Birir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Ethnicity	Kalash
Native speakers	(5,030 cited 2000)[1] 6,000 (2010)[2]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Aryan Dardic Kalasha
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kls
ELP	Kalasha
Linguasphere	59-AAB-ab

Kalash or Kalasha (also known as Kalasha-mun) is an Indo-European language in the Indo-Aryan branch, further classified as a Dardic language in the Chitral Group. However, this Dardic classification is questionable because only 53% of the commonly used words in Kalash have cognates in Khowar language.

Related pages

• Languages of Pakistan

References

1. Kalasha at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
2. Khowar Academy