Dardic languages

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Dardic
Geographic distribution:	Pakistan: North-West Frontier Province
Genetic classification:	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Dardic
Subdivisions:	—

The Dardic languages are the languages of the Dard people. They form a subfamily of the Indo-Iranian languages.

1 Problems with Familial Classification
2 Divisions into sub-groups
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Problems with Familial Classification

Labelling the Dardic languages as a linguistic sub-family poses a few problems since these languages are not related to each other genetically besides being Indo-Iranian. The term Dardic is thus more of a geographical reference to a collection of more or less Indo-Iranian Language Isolates than an actual familial designation. Their relationship to the other subfamilies of the Indo-Iranian is not yet settled, though some linguistics texts tend to classify some of them as a sub-group of Indo-Aryan languages.

[edit] Divisions into sub-groups

Each subfamily in this list contains subgroups and individual languages.

Chitral languages
- Khowar
- Kalasha-mun
Kashmiri languages
Kohistani languages
Kunar languages
- Pashayi languages
- Dameli
- Gawar-Bati
- Grangali
- Ningalami
- Zemiaki
- Shumashti

Shina languages
- Gilgiti Shina main dialect
- Astori Shina
- Brokskad The Shina of Baltistan and Ladakh
- Domaaki
- Kohistani Shina
- Palula
- Savi
- Ushojo

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Dardic language tree

v • d • e</div> Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-Aryan	Sanskrit: Vedic Sanskrit - Classical Sanskrit \| Prakrit: Pāli - Magadhi \| Hindustani (Registers: Hindi, Urdu) \| Bengali (Dialects: Chittagonian, Sylheti) \| Angika \| Assamese \| Bhojpuri \| Bishnupriya Manipuri \| Dhivehi \| Dogri \| Gujarati \| Konkani \| Mahl \| Maithili \| Marathi \| Mitanni \| Nepali \| Oriya \| Punjabi \| Romani \| Sindhi \| Sinhala
Iranian	Avestan \| Persian: Old Persian - Middle Persian (Pahlavi) - Modern Persian (Varieties: Farsi, Dari, Tajik) Bukhori \| Bactrian \| Balochi \| Dari (Zoroastrianism) \| Gilaki \| Kurdish \| Mazandarani \| Ossetic \| Pamir \| Pashto \| Saka \| Sarikoli \| Scythian \| Shughni \| Sogdian \| Talysh \| Tat \| Wakhi \| Yaghnobi \| Zazaki \|
Dardic	Dameli \| Domaaki \| Gawar-Bati \| Kalasha-mun \| Kashmiri \| Khowar \| Kohistani \| Nangalami \| Pashayi \| Palula \| Shina \| Shumashti
Nuristani	Askunu \| Kalasha-ala \| Kamkata-viri \| Tregami \| Vasi-vari