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څوچه پاتي یو افغان وي - تل بدا افغانستان وي | تا زنده یک افغان است - جاوید افغانستان است
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Indo-Iranian, Dardic Group
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Dardic Group Among the Dardic, or Pisacha, languages are
Kafiri, spoken in Afghanistan; Khowar, current in Pakistan; Shina,
Kohistani, and Kashmiri, prevalent in Pakistan and N India; and Romani,
the language of the Romani (Gypsies), spoken mainly in Europe. These
languages share certain distinctive phonetic characteristics, feature
the use of pronominal suffixes with various verb forms, and include in
their vocabularies a number of words that among the languages of India
are usually encountered only in Vedic Sanskrit. Kashmiri is the sole
Dardic language that both has a literature and is recognized in the
Indian constitution of 1950. The native tongue of about 4 million
people, it has been heavily influenced by Sanskrit, so that it is now
partly Indic in character. Kashmiri is written in Persian letters by
Muslims, whereas Hindus use a script similar to the Devanagari alphabet. Sections in this article:
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