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Preferred term

klsKalasha  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Kalasha (also known as Kalasha-mondr) is an Indo-European language in the Indo-Iranian branch spoken by the Kalash people, further classified as a Dardic language in the Chitral Group. Georg Morgenstierne maintains that "The Kalasha do not belong to the special Kafir branch of Indo-Iranian but speak a true Indo-Aryan language." The Kalasha language is phonologically atypical because it contrasts plain, long, nasal, and retroflex vowels as well as combinations of these (Heegård & Mørch 2004). According to the Chitrali researcher Rehmat Aziz Chitrali, the correct name of the language is Kalasha.

Entry terms

  • Kalash language

ISO 639-3 code

  • kls

Notation

  • kls

In other languages

  • Kalasha

    French

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kls

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