Parachi language
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Parachi | |
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Native to | Afghanistan |
Region | Kabul |
Native speakers | 3,500 (2009)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | prc |
Glottolog | para1299 |
ELP | Parachi |
Parachi(Parāčī) is anIranianlanguage. Parachi is spoken by some 600 individuals of the Parachi ethnic group in easternAfghanistan,mainly in the upper part ofNijrab District,northeast ofKabul,out of a total ethnic Parachi population of some 5,000.
It is closely related to theOrmuri languageofKaniguraminSouth Waziristan,Pakistan.Parachi is usually classified as a member of the Southeastern group of theEastern Iranian languages,[2]although this is anarealgroup rather than a genetical one.
References
[edit]- ^ParachiatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
- ^Nicholas Sims-Williams,Eastern Iranian languages,in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, 2010
Further reading
[edit]- Ефимов, В. А. (2009).Язык парачи: грамматический очерк; тексты; словарь[Parachi language: Grammar, texts, dictionary] (in Russian). Мoskva: Восточная литература.ISBN978-5-02-036407-3.
- KIEFFER, CHARLES (1977). "The Approaching End of the Relict Southeast Iranian Languages Ōrmuri and Parāči in Afghanistan".International Journal of the Sociology of Language.1977(12): 71–100.doi:10.1515/ijsl.1977.12.71.
- Trofimov, Artem (2019)."On the place of Parachi and Ormuri among the Iranian languages according to the data of annotated Swadesh lists".Journal of Language Relationship.16(3–4): 277–292.doi:10.31826/jlr-2019-163-411..
- Трофимов, А. А. (2021). "Ударение множественного числа имен с показателем -ån в парачи и его связь с праиранской акцентуацией" [Stress position of nominal plurals in -ån in the Parachi language and its connection with the accent in Proto-Iranian].Journal of Language Relationship.19(3–4): 210–232.doi:10.1515/jlr-2021-193-407..
- Трофимов, А. А. (2022). "Ударение в языках парачи и ормури в связи с афганским и его значение для иранской реконструкции" [The accent in Parachi and Ormuri compared to Pashto and its significance for the reconstruction of Proto-Iranian].Journal of Language Relationship(in Russian).20(3–4): 222–252.doi:10.1515/jlr-2023-203-407.