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Shumashti language

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Shumashti
Native toAfghanistan
RegionKunar Province
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1994)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3sts
Glottologshum1235
ELPShumashti

Shumashti – also known as Shumasht – is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in eastern Afghanistan. It is spoken in parts of Kunar Province: on the western side of the Kunar Valley between Jalalabad and the Pech Valley. The number of speakers was estimated at 1,000 in 1994.[2]

It has been influenced by the Northeast Pashai languages, and it is related to the Grangali language, with which it shares about a third of its basic vocabulary, and to Gawar-Bati, with which it has about half of its basic lexis in common.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Shumashti at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b Shumashti language at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) Closed access icon