Indo-Aryan language spoken in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
"Kohistani language" redirects here. Not to be confused with the Shina Kohistani language.
Kohistani (Indus Kohistani)
Maiyã
کوستَیں Kōstaiñ
Region
Indus Kohistan (Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan, Kolai-Palas districts as well as Tangir and Darel valleys)[1]
Ethnicity
Indus Kohistanis
Native speakers
(200,000 cited 1992)[2]
Language family
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Aryan
Eastern Dardic
Kohistani
Kohistani (Indus Kohistani)
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script (Nastaliq)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
mvy
Glottolog
indu1241
Kohistani is a minor language of Pakistan which is mainly spoken in the Kohistan region, it is given a space in this map.
Indus Kohistani or simply Kohistani (کوستَیں ژباں, Kōstaiñ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the former Kohistan District of Pakistan.[3] The language was referred to as Maiyã (Mayon) or Shuthun by early researchers, but subsequent observations have not verified that these names are known locally.[4]
^Frembgen, Jurgen Wasin (1999). "Indus Kohistan An Historical and Ethnographie Outline". Central Asiatic Journal. 43 (1): 71. JSTOR 41928174.
^Kohistani (Indus Kohistani) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^Jain, Danesh; Cardona, George (2007-07-26). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Routledge. p. 874. ISBN 978-1-135-79711-9.
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