Nuristani languages

The Nuristani languages (زبان نورستانی) are one of the three groups in the Indo-Iranian language family. The other two languages being Indo-Aryan and Iranian.SIL Ethnologue Morgenstierne, G. Irano-Dardica. Wiesbaden 1973; Morgenstierne, G. Die Stellung der Kafirsprachen. In Irano-Dardica, 327-343. Wiesbaden, Reichert 1975Strand, Richard F. (1973) "Notes on the Nûristânî and Dardic Languages."  Journal of the American Oriental Society, 93.3: 297-305. They are spoken mainly in the Nuristan Province of eastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. The speakers of the Nuristani languages are known as Nuristani people.

Languages
 Askunu (Ashkun) 2,000 speakers
 Kamkata-viri (Bashgali, includes the dialects Kata-vari, Shekhani, Kamviri & Mumviri) 24,200 speakers
 Vasi-vari (Prasuni) 2,000 speakers
 Tregami (Gambiri) 1,000 speakers
 Waigali (Kalasha-ala) 2,000 speakers
 Zemiaki 500 speakers (traditionally classified as a dialekt of Indo-Aryan Nangalami-Grangali, belongs here according to Grjunberg 1999)

References

Category:Languages of Afghanistan
Category:Languages of Pakistan
Category:Language families of Pakistan
Category:Indo-Iranian languages
Category:Nuristan Province
Category:Chitral District