Badeshi

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Badeshi
Badeshi in Arabic script.png
Badeshi written in the Arabic script
Native to Pakistan
Region Bishigram Valley, Chail
EthnicityBadeshi people
Native speakers
3 (2018) [1]
Indo-European
Arabic script, [2] words also transcribed in Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bdz
Glottolog bade1240

Badeshi is an unclassified Indo-Iranian language spoken in northern Pakistan. [3] The language is critically endangered and considered at risk of extinction. In 2018, the BBC found three men who could still speak the language. [1] [4]

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Muhammad Zaman Sagar, a field linguist connected to the Forum for Language Initiative, has worked on this language. But as a result of his research during two years, he collected only about one hundred words. [1] In July 2007, he visited the Bishigram Valley again and spent some days with the people there. There are efforts to retain a record of the language by linguist Zubair Torwali among others. [5] Torwali has posited that it may be related to Yidgha or Wakhi. [5]

Usage

In 2018, BBC reporters found three old men (Said Gul, Ali Sher and Rahim Gul) who could still speak Badeshi in the Bishigram Valley in Northern Pakistan. [1] They claimed that the language had initially been spoken by "nine or ten families" in their village, but that the Torwali language had taken over. The men had also worked in tourist areas in the Swat Valley, where they spoke Pashto. Some romanised phrases of Badeshi were: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Syed, Zafar (26 February 2018). "Only three people speak this language". BBC News. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Usage of Nasta'liq in the Modern Publications - Typography Day" (PDF). Typography Day.
  3. ↑ Hulst, Harry van der; Goedemans, Rob; Zanten, Ellen van (2010). A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World. Walter de Gruyter. p. 551. ISBN   978-3-11-019631-3.
  4. ↑ BBC News (26 February 2018). The language only three men speak - BBC News . Retrieved 5 November 2024– via YouTube.
  5. 1 2 Khaliq, Fazal (10 January 2018). "Swat's ancient language breathing its last". Dawn . Retrieved 30 September 2024.


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