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Muhammad Parwaish Shaheen

Languages Research Project Center, Mengora, Swat

Kanya WaliPakistan is a multilingual country.It has been a centre of many old

languages.The 'kanyawali' is a language which belongs to kohistan.A

small number of speakers and a few persons know it. There is an

introduction of this language in this article.

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chiliso

gabari

World Expert on dardic languages George Buddrus Tangir

KANYA WALI

Dardic

/

Masica

Banjkari Tangir

Shatial

Darel

Yaseen

19161904 Pakhtoon Wali

Sub War Lords

tribe

Lambarda Chillas

Shin

Dom kamin yashkon

Mali

Dakan

Elder mashar

Pakool

Kanyawli

Shina

Dardic Dard

Raja

Tarangni

Pisachi

That the ancestars of these tribes of the north west frontier once spoke

language a kin to the paisachi of the Indian grammarians

Dardistan

Pliny Strabo

Isoglosses

From a third independent branch of the great aryan family and that the

are neither Iranian nor Indian but some thing between both.

Echos

Masica

W. Skalmahiski

There has been until now no agreement between lors as to

the exact position of Dardic with in the Indo-European family

grisson regarded this group as a separat third member of the

aryan branch, as more exactly . as a sub. branch of proto

Iranian, In other words he regarded dardic as being situated

some what closer to Iranian that to Indian.

Dardic

Dir

Manzari mani Shuthum Maiyan

Maiya Maiya

Maiyan

Maiya

Kohistan Kostan koisti

Kostan

Kohistani

Manzari Mani Dilect Uter

Maiyan is divided in to two main dialect Mani and Manzari .

Of which Duberi belongs to a western group and those patan,

seo, etc. to an eastern one.

Bankari

Kandhia Khili

Bankar

Barkari Kania

Bajkari

mani

An isolated dialect of maiyan-konya wali is spoken in the

territory of Shina

Bateri

Mani

Shina

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