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Preferred term

phlPalula  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Palula (also spelled Phalura, Palola, Phalulo), Ashreti, Aćharêtâʹ, or Dangarikwar (the name used by Khowar speakers), is a language spoken by approximately 10,000 people in the valleys of Ashret and Biori, as well as in the village Puri (also Purigal) in the Shishi valley, and at least by a portion of the population in the village Kalkatak, in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. A related variety of this language is spoken in the village Sau in Afghanistan, and another closely related variety in the village Khalkot in Dir District. Palula is pronounced as /paaluulaá/, with three long vowels and a rising pitch on the final syllable.

Entry terms

  • Palula language
  • Phalura

ISO 639-3 code

  • phl

Notation

  • phl

In other languages

  • Phalura

    French

URI

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

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