Kohistani Shina is an

Indo-Aryan language The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated in India, Pa ...

spoken in the former Kohistan District of

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, northern Pakistan. According to '' Ethnologue'', Kohistani Shina is mutually intelligible with the

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variety of

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, but not with the standard dialect of

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and

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speakers speak Kohistani Shina as a second language.

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loanwords can be found in the language. A grammar and a dictionary of the language have been published.

Alphabet

Here is the alphabet for Kohistani Shina compiled by Razwal Kohistani in 2020.

References

{{incubator, plk Kohistan District, Pakistan Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa