Dameli language
Dameli is a Dardic language spoken by approximately 5,000 people in the Domel Valley, in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The Domel or Damel Valley is about ten miles south of Drosh on the East Side of the Chitral or Kunar river, on the road from the Mirkhani Fort to the pass of Arandu. Dameli is still the main language in the villages where it is spoken, and it is regularly learned by children. Most of the men speak Pashto as a second language, and some also speak Khowar and Urdu, but there are  no signs of massive language change. Study. Emil Perder's 2013 dissertation, "A Grammatical Description of Dameli", based on the author's field work, is the first comprehensive description of the Dameli language. Before Perder's work, the main source of information on Dameli was an article by Georg Morgenstierne, published in 1942: "Notes on Dameli: A Kafir-Dardic Language of the Chitral". A sociolinguistic survey written by Kendall Decker (1992) contains a chapter on Dameli. Classification. The language is classified as a Dardic language. The Dardic languages have been historically seen as an independent branch within Indo-Iranian, but  today they are placed within Indo-Aryan following Morgenstierne's work. Phonology. The following tables set out the phonology of the Dameli Language.