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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Pakistan > Phalura

Phalura

A language of Pakistan

ISO 639-3phl

Population  10,000 (2006).
Region  East side of the lower Chitral Valley, 7 villages; possibly 1 village in Dir Kohistan; Purigal, Ghos, the Biori Valley, Kalkatak, and Ashret.
Language map  Northern Pakistan, reference number 9
Alternate names   Biyori, Dangarik, Palola, Palula, Phalulo
Dialects  Ashreti, Northern Phalura. Lexical similarity: 92% between Ashreti and Northern Phalura dialects, 56%–58% with Savi [sdg] in Afghanistan, 38%–42% with Shina [scl].
Classification  Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern zone, Dardic, Shina
Language use  Also use Khowar [khw].
Writing system  Arabic script.
Comments  Called ‘Phalulo’. Muslim (Sunni).

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

DECKER, Kendall D., author. 1992. Factors affecting language maintenance and shift in Chitral District, Pakistan.

DECKER, Kendall D., author. 1992. Languages of Chitral.  Available online

HAIDER, Naseem; LILJEGREN, Henrik, authors. 2009. "Illustrations of the IPA: Palula."  Available online

HAIDER, Nasim; LILJEGREN, Henrik, authors. Available: 2010; Created: 2005. Palula phonology summary.  Available online

LILJEGREN, Henrik, author. 2008. Towards a grammatical description of Palula: an Indo-Aryan language of the Hindu Kush.  Available online

LILJEGREN, Henrik, author. 2009. "The Dangari tongue of Choke and Machoke: tracing the proto-language of Shina enclaves in the Hindu Kush."

LILJEGREN, Henrik, author. 2010. "Where have all the verbs gone? On verb stretching and semi-words in Indo-Aryan Palula."  Available online

LILJEGREN, Henrik, author; HAIDER, Naseem, consultant. 2011. Palula Vocabulary.

Vernacular Publications

Palula Alif, be. 2006.

Palula shiluuka. 2006.