Dameli (دَميلي), also Damia, Damɛ̃ḍī, Dāmia bāṣa or Gidoj,[2][3] is an Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic subgroup spoken by approximately 5,000 people in the Domel Town, 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.
^Dameli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^"Languages of Hindukush". University of Chitral. Archived from the original on 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
^Masica, Colin (1991). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Cambridge University Press. p. 426.
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