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Badeshi language

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Ethnicity
  
2,800 (2000)

ISO 639-3
  
bdz

Language family
  
unclassified

Glottolog
  
bade1240

Region
  
Bishigram (Chail) Valley

Extinct
  
for at least 3 generations

Badeshi is a purported but unattested Indo-Iranian language spoken in Pakistan. Its distinctiveness is unconfirmed; it may simply be a family name. It has not been spoken for at least three generations.

Muhammad Zaman Sagar, a field linguist, has worked on this language. But as a result of his research during two years, he has collected only about one hundred words. In July 2007 he visited the Bishigram valley again and spent some days with the people there.

References

Badeshi language Wikipedia


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