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- 1 2 3 Ashiqehind 2018.
- ↑ Mahajan 2018; Ashiqehind 2018. Some Muslim communities are speakers of Gojri or Watali.
- ↑ Parihar & Dwivedi 2019, p. 4.
- ↑ Grierson 1919, p. 433.
- ↑ Wali & Koul 1996 , p. xii; a recent example is in Bhat & Niaz 2014 , p. 292.
- ↑ Kaul 2006 , pp. 158–166; Ashiqehind 2018, "Sarazi should be classed as a Western Pahari language. It would still make a very aberrant member of the group."
- ↑ Mahajan 2018.
- ↑ Kaul 2006, p. 163.
- ↑ This is the proposal by Varma (1939 , pp. 88–89), according to whom the characteristics of Dardic and Pahari "have so deeply penetrated the grammatical structure of the dialect that it must be called as fundamentally Dardo-Pahāṛī". This was criticised by Kaul (2006).
- ↑ Koul & Schmidt 1983, p. 10.