Kalasha (IPA: [kaɭaʂaː], locally: Kal'as'amondr) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Kalash people, in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province...
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Kalash people (redirect from Kalasha people)
Kalash (Kalasha: کالؕاشؕا, romanised: Kaḷaṣa), or Kalasha, are a small (ca. 3000) Indo-Aryan indigenous (minority) people residing in the Chitral District...
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The Kalasha Valleys (Kalasha-mondr: Kaĺaśa Desh; Urdu: وادی کیلاش) are valleys in Chitral District in northern Pakistan. The valleys are surrounded by...
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population. Kalasha is also spoken by a small population. As per the 2017 census, Chitral has a population of 49,780. University of Chitral Falak Naz Chitrali...
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Kalash (redirect from Kalasha of Chitral)
Kalash or Kalasha may refer to: Kalash people, or Kalasha, an ethnic group of Chitral, Pakistan Kalasha-mun, a language of Chitral, Pakistan Kalasha-ala, a...
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called “Black Kalasha.” According to linguist Richard Strand the Kalasha of Chitral apparently adopted the name of the Nuristani Kalasha, who at some unknown...
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dominant language of Chitral as a whole. Pashto is spoken in the southeast of the district by 9.36% of the population, while Kalasha is spoken by 1.59%...
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describes upper Chitral under Sumalik of the Trakhane dynasty, which supposedly ruled Gilgit, while lower Chitral was ruled by Kalasha rulers Bulasing...
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Gujari(Gojri), Kalasha, Kyrgyz, Kataviri/Kamviri, Madaklashti, Palula, Sariquli, Wakhi, and Yidgha. Urdu has official status. The city of Chitral is the main...
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people, living in the Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It marks the commencement of spring within the Kalasha community and is...
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Bumburet (category Articles containing Kalasha-language text)
Bumburet (Kalasha: Mumuret, Urdu: وادی پمپوریت) is the largest valley of Kalasha Desh in Lower Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the province of Pakistan...
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Sangoor and Parwak. Kalasha Dur Museum List of museums in Pakistan "Museums: The Gatekeepers of Culture". "Chitral Museum, Chitral". www.kparchaeology...
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Kalasha Dur Museum ('House of the Kalasha People' or 'Cultural Centre for the Kalasha' in Kalashamondr), also known as Bumburet Museum, is a museum located...
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speakers Southern: Askunu (Ashkun) 40,000 speakers Waigali (Nuristani Kalasha, Kalasha-ala) 12,000 speakers Tregami (Gambiri) 3,500 speakers Zemiaki 500 speakers...
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Rumbur (category Kalasha Valleys)
Rumbur (Kalasha: Rukmu) is one of the three Kalasha valleys situated in Lower Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Wynne Maggi (2002). Our...
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Kho people (category Upper Chitral District)
Ethnologue. Cacopardo, Alberto (1991). "The Other Kalasha A Survey of Kalashamun-Speaking People in Southern Chitral: Part I: The Eastern Area". East and West...
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language, a Dardic language of Chitral, Pakistan Chitral(i) language(s) may also refer to: any of the languages of Chitral a subgroup of the Dardic languages...
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Publishing. p. 357. ISBN 9781438119137. The Kalasha are a unique people living in just three valleys near Chitral, Pakistan, the capital of North-West Frontier...
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Khowar (category Languages of Lower Chitral District)
language family primarily spoken in Chitral and surrounding areas in Pakistan. Khowar is the lingua franca of Chitral, and it is also spoken in the Gupis-Yasin...
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Brun is a village located in Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is situated in the Bumburet Valley. The village is home to the Kalash...
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worn in the area, starting to north to south: Chitral: Shushut, Chehare , beaded necklaces worn by Kalasha women Kho caps worn by Kho women and Chitrali...
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Urtsuniwar (category Articles containing Kalasha-language text)
Urtsuniwar or Urchuniwar (اُرچؕنوار) is a dialect of Kalasha-mun spoken in the Urtsun Valley in Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The total number of...
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Animism (category Articles containing Kalasha-language text)
The Kalash (Kalasha: کالؕاشؕا, romanised: Kaḷaṣa, Devanagari: कळष), or Kalasha, are an Indo-Aryan indigenous people residing in the Chitral District of...
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Ashret, but has died out in other places in Chitral, Dir, and Kohistan. There are also some speakers of Kalasha-mun. These are the villages in Biori: Mingal...
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Dardic languages (redirect from List of Chitral languages)
archaic or antiquated vocabulary lost in other modern Indo-Aryan languages. Kalasha and Khowar are the most archaic of all modern Indo-Aryan languages, retaining...
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Wazir Zada (category People from Chitral)
Pakhtunkhwa. He is the first Kalasha to become the member of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was born in Chitral. He completed his matriculation...
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community Kalasha (an Indigenous people group) living in the wilderness of Hindu Kush Mountains in the Chitral district of Pakistan. Kalasha are the last...
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Yidgha language (category Languages of Upper Chitral District)
of the Pamir group spoken in the upper Lotkoh Valley (Tehsil Lotkoh) of Chitral in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Yidgha is similar to the...
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Katoor dynasty (category Chitral (princely state))
with its collateral branches ruled the sovereign, later princely state of Chitral and its neighbours in the eastern Hindu Kush region for over 450 years...
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the Kalasha people. Maureen Lines first visited Pakistan in 1980 and from then on spent her whole life in the preservation and promotion of Kalasha culture...
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