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Parachi

Native to	Afghanistan
Region	Kabul
Native speakers	3,500 (2009)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern? Ormuri–Parachi Parachi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`prc`
Glottolog	`para1299`
ELP	Parachi

Parachi (Parāčī) is an Iranian language. Parachi is spoken by some 600 individuals of the Parachi ethnic group in eastern Afghanistan, mainly in the upper part of Nijrab District, northeast of Kabul, out of a total ethnic Parachi population of some 5,000.

It is closely related to the Ormuri language of Kaniguram in South Waziristan, Pakistan. Parachi is usually classified as a member of the Southeastern group of the Eastern Iranian languages, although this is an areal group rather than a genetical one.

References

Parachi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Nicholas Sims-Williams, Eastern Iranian languages, in Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, 2010

Ефимов, В. А. (2009). Язык парачи: грамматический очерк; тексты; словарь [Parachi language: Grammar, texts, dictionary] (in Russian). Мoskva: Восточная литература. ISBN 978-5-02-036407-3.
KIEFFER, CHARLES (1977). "The Approaching End of the Relict Southeast Iranian Languages Ōrmuri and Parāči in Afghanistan". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 1977 (12): 71–100. doi:10.1515/ijsl.1977.12.71.
Trofimov, Artem (2019). "On the place of Parachi and Ormuri among the Iranian languages according to the data of annotated Swadesh lists". Journal of Language Relationship. 16 (3–4): 277–292. doi:10.31826/jlr-2019-163-411..
Трофимов, А. А. (2021). "Ударение множественного числа имен с показателем -ån в парачи и его связь с праиранской акцентуацией" [Stress position of nominal plurals in -ån in the Parachi language and its connection with the accent in Proto-Iranian]. Journal of Language Relationship. 19 (3–4): 210–232. doi:10.1515/jlr-2021-193-407..
Трофимов, А. А. (2022). "Ударение в языках парачи и ормури в связи с афганским и его значение для иранской реконструкции" [The accent in Parachi and Ormuri compared to Pashto and its significance for the reconstruction of Proto-Iranian]. Journal of Language Relationship (in Russian). 20 (3–4): 222–252. doi:10.1515/jlr-2023-203-407.

Iranian languages

History

Eastern

Pamir	Ishkashimi Khufi Munji Rushani Sanglechi Shughni Bartangi Khufi Oroshori Sarikoli Vanji Wakhi Yazghulami Yidgha
Others	Avestan Bactrian Khwarezmian Parachi Pashto Central Northern Southern Wanetsi Ormuri Sarghulami Scythian Alanian Ossetian Digor Iron Jassic Saka Sogdian Yaghnobi

Western

North	Ashtiani Balochi Makrani Daylami Fars Gilaki Gorani Gorgani Karingani Kurdish Kurmanji Sorani Xwarin Kordali Laki Mazanderani Tabaroid Median Old Azeri Parthian Semnani Lasgerdi Sangsari Semnani proper Sorkhei Talysh Tati Tatoid Zaza Zoroastrian Dari
South	Achomi Bashkardi Garmsiri Kuhmareyi Kumzari Luri Bakhtiari Pahlavani Persian Caucasian Tat Dari Hazaragi Tajik Old Persian Middle Persian

Others

Badeshi (unknown further classification)

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