observed the following about pre-Islamic Nuristani religion: "Before their conversion to Islâm the Nuristânis practiced a form of ancient Hinduism, infused...
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Pakhtunkhwa's Chitral District, Pakistan. The region inhabited by the Nuristanis is located in the southern Hindu Kush mountains, and is drained by the...
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Look up Nuristani in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nuristani may refer to: Nuristani languages, Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani people, speakers of...
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Ethnic groups in Afghanistan (section Nuristani)
000. The Nuristanis are an Indo-Iranian people, representing a third independent branch of the Aryan peoples (Indo-Aryan, Iranian and Nuristani), who live...
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Dr. Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani is a former politician from Afghanistan. He served as governor of Herat province from January 2009 to August 2010. In September...
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linked to various ancient groups of people and the Turk Shahi kings. Some Nuristanis claim being descendants of the Greek occupying forces of Alexander the...
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Abdul Qadir Nuristani (Persian: عبدالقدیر نورستانی) was an Afghan Minister of the Interior during the Republic of Afghanistan. Abdul Qadir had previously...
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adopted for the Kalash people by the Kalasha speakers of Chitral from the Nuristanis of Waygal, who for a time expanded up to southern Chitral several centuries...
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Noor Ullah Nuristani (born 1932) was an Afghan field hockey player who played for the national team. Nuristani competed at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games...
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Kalasha-ala (redirect from Nuristani Kalasha language)
Waigali (Kalaṣa-alâ), also known as Nuristani Kalasha, is a language spoken by about 10,000 Nuristani people of the Waigal Valley in the Nuristan Province...
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Ramazan Nuristani (born 1932) was an Afghan field hockey player and a member of the national team. He played in two of Afghanistan's three field hockey...
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Chitralis, Torwalis, Hazaras, Burusho, Wakhis, Kalash, Siddis, Uzbeks, Nuristanis, Pamiris, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uyghurs and various other smaller minorities...
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Indo-Iranian languages (redirect from Indo-Nuristani languages)
the IA languages of the Indo-Gangetic plain. Although the Dardic and Nuristani (previously 'Kafiri') languages were formerly grouped together, Morgenstierne...
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Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, as well as smaller groups such as Baloch, Nuristani, Turkmen, Aimaq, Mongol and some others which are less known. Together...
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creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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several communities of Afghanistan such as Tajiks, Pashayi٫ Pashtuns & Nuristanis. It was adopted first among the Pashtuns of Pakistan as a replacement...
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noted the following about the pre-Islamic Nuristani religion: Before their conversion to Islâm the Nuristânis practised a form of ancient Hinduism, infused...
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Mohammed Issa Nuristani (or Issa Khan Nuristan) was an army general and a community leader among the Safed Posh tribe in Nuristan, Afghanistan, who led...
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spoken by 50%, Uzbek 10%, English 5%, Turkmen 2%, Urdu 2%, Pashayi 1%, Nuristani 1%, Arabic 1%, and Balochi 1% (2021 est). Data represent the most widely...
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harp is a traditional four- or five-stringed arched harp used by the Nuristanis native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Lower...
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Din Mohammad Nuristani (born 1928) is an Afghan former field hockey player who was a member of the national field hockey team. He competed at the 1948...
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universally worshipped by all Nuristani as the Creator, the Hindu god Yama Raja, called imr'o or imra by the Nuristani tribes. "The Kalasha Valleys"....
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spoken by 50%, Uzbek 10%, English 5%, Turkmen 2%, Urdu 2%, Pashayi 1%, Nuristani 1%, Arabic 1%, and Balochi 1% (2021 est). Data represent the most widely...
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Kalash people Chitral Kalasha language Kho people Khowar language Nuristanis Nuristani languages Pashayi people Pashayi languages Shina people Shina language...
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Kom people (Afghanistan) (category Nuristani tribes)
became collectively known as Nuristanis (sometimes loosely translated as "enlightened ones"). Nurestan Nuristani people Nuristani languages Katir Kamviri Kambojas...
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Ruki sound law (section Nuristani)
different behavior in Nuristani, conditioned by the following factors: The reflex of the Proto-Indo-European sequence *ḱs is Nuristani *ć (pronounced [t͡s])...
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Slavic Celtic Germanic Hellenic Greek Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Iranian Nuristani Italic Romance Extinct Anatolian Tocharian Paleo-Balkan Dacian Illyrian...
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creoles Andaman Creole Hindi Bombay Hindi Haflong Hindi Nagamese Nefamese Vedda See also Indo-Iranian languages Nuristani languages Iranian languages...
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Slavic Celtic Germanic Hellenic Greek Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Iranian Nuristani Italic Romance Extinct Anatolian Tocharian Paleo-Balkan Dacian Illyrian...
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Slavic Celtic Germanic Hellenic Greek Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Iranian Nuristani Italic Romance Extinct Anatolian Tocharian Paleo-Balkan Dacian Illyrian...
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