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- Kalasha_language abstract "Kalasha (also known as Kalashamondr) is an Indo-European language in the Indo-Aryan branch spoken by the Kalash people, further classified as a Dardic language in the Chitral group. The Kalasha language is phonologically atypical because it contrasts plain, long, nasal, and retroflex vowels as well as combinations of these (Heegård & Mørch 2004).Kalasha is spoken by the Kalash people who reside in the remote valleys of Bumburet, Birir and Rumbur, which are west of Ayun, which is ten miles down the river from Chitral Town, high in the Hindu Kush mountains in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The Kalash have their own religion, with gods and goddesses. There are an estimated 5,000 speakers of Kalasha.According to Badshah Munir Bukhari, one of the world's leading authorities on this subject, \"Kalasha\" is also the ethnic name for the Nuristani inhabitants of a region southwest of the Kalasha Valleys, in the Waygal and middle Pech Valleys of Afghanistan's Nuristan Province. The term \"Kalasha\" seems to have been adopted by the Kalasha speakers of Chitral from the Nuristanis of Waygal, who for a time expanded up to southern Chitral several centuries ago. However, there is no close connection between the Indo-Aryan language Kalasha-mun and the Nuristani language Kalasha-ala, which descend from different branches of the Indo-Iranian languages.Until the late 20th century, Kalasha was an undocumented language. More recently, through the work of a Greek NGO and local Kalasha elders seeking to preserve their oral traditions, a new Kalasha alphabet has been created. Working in close collaboration with various international researchers and linguists, Kalasha linguist Taj Khan Kalash organized first \"Kalasha Orthography Conference\" in Islamabad Pakistan. Having moved to Thessaloniki, Greece, to study linguistics in the Aristotle University, he and the Greek NGO Mesogaia took on the task of compiling the script and creating The Alphabet Book, a primer used to teach the alphabet to the Kalasha children. In 2004 he was able to raise funds to publish the first alphabet book of the Kalasha language based on Roman script designed by an Australian linguist, Gregory R. Cooper.Of all the languages in the subcontinent, Kalasha is likely the most conservative, along with the nearby western Dardic language Khowar. In a few cases, Kalasha is even more conservative than Khowar, e.g. in retaining voiced aspirate consonants, which have disappeared from most other Dardic languages.Some of the typical retentions of sounds and clusters (and meanings) are seen in the following list. However, note some common New Indo-Aryan and Dardic features as well.".
- Kalasha_language iso6393Code "kls".
- Kalasha_language languageFamily Dardic_languages.
- Kalasha_language languageFamily Indo-Aryan_languages.
- Kalasha_language languageFamily Indo-Iranian_languages.
- Kalasha_language spokenIn Kalasha_Valleys.
- Kalasha_language spokenIn Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.
- Kalasha_language spokenIn Pakistan.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageExternalLink nels39_hndt_kalasha.pdf.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageExternalLink index.html.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageExternalLink ~strand.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageExternalLink kalasha-dictionary.htm.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageExternalLink www.kalashapeople.org.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageExternalLink dlink.asp?ID=0FW3HU5663&L1=34&L2=44.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageExternalLink www.site-shara.net.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageID "2348817".
- Kalasha_language wikiPageLength "16377".
- Kalasha_language wikiPageOutDegree "69".
- Kalasha_language wikiPageRevisionID "707632229".
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Affricate_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Alveolar_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Approximant_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Aristotle_University_of_Thessaloniki.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Aspirated_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Ayun,_Chitral.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Back_vowel.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Badshah_Munir_Bukhari.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Bumburet.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dardic_languages.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Kalash_people.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Chitral.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Pakistan.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Central_vowel.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Chitral.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Chitral_District.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Close_vowel.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Dardic_languages.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Ergative_verb.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Fricative_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Front_vowel.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Glottal_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Greece.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Hindu_Kush.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Indo-Aryan_languages.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Indo-European_languages.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Indo-Iranian_languages.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Institute_for_Comparative_Research_in_Human_Culture.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Islamabad.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Kalash_people.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Kalasha_Valleys.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Khowar_language.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Labial_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Mesogaia.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Mid_vowel.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Middle_Indo-Aryan_languages.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Murmured_voice.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Nasal_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Nuristan_Province.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Open_vowel.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Pakistan.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Postalveolar_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Proto-Indo-Aryan_language.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Retroflex_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Rhotic_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Stop_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Tach_Sharakat.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Thessaloniki.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Uvular_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Velar_consonant.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Voice_(phonetics).
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Voicelessness.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLink Waigali_language.
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kalas language".
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kalasha language".
- Kalasha_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Kalasha".
- Kalasha_language date "2000".
- Kalasha_language ethnicity Kalash_people.
- Kalasha_language fam Dardic_languages.
- Kalasha_language fam Indo-Aryan_languages.
- Kalasha_language fam Indo-Iranian_languages.
- Kalasha_language fam "Chitrali".
- Kalasha_language familycolor "Indo-European".
- Kalasha_language glotto "kala1372".
- Kalasha_language glottorefname "Kalasha".
- Kalasha_language iso "kls".
- Kalasha_language lingua "59".
- Kalasha_language name "Kalasha".
- Kalasha_language nativename "Kalashamondr".
- Kalasha_language ref "e18".
- Kalasha_language region Kalasha_Valleys.
- Kalasha_language region Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa.
- Kalasha_language states "Pakistan".
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- Kalasha_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Indo-Iranian_languages.
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