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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indo-Iranian language spoken in Pakistan}}<br />
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{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Badeshi<br />
| altname = <br />
| speakers = 3<br />
| states = [[Pakistan]]<br />
| region = [[Bishigram Valley]], Chail<br />
| familycolor = Indo-European<br />
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]<br />
| fam3 = (unclassified)<br />
| script = [[Arabic script]],<ref>{{cite web|title= Usage of Nasta'liq in the Modern Publications - Typography Day |url= https://typoday.in/2012/spk_papers/farzan-kermaninejad-typographyday2012.pdf|website=Typography Day}}</ref> words also transcribed in [[Latin script]]<br />
| iso3 = bdz<br />
| glotto = bade1240<br />
| glottorefname = Badeshi<br />
| image = File:Badeshi in Nastaliq.svg<br />
| imagecaption = Badeshi written in Nastaliq<br />
| ethnicity = Badeshi people<br />
| ref = <ref name="BBC"/><br />
| date = 2018<br />
}}<br />
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'''Badeshi''' is an unclassified [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian language]] spoken in northern [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hulst |first1=Harry van der |last2=Goedemans |first2=Rob |last3=Zanten |first3=Ellen van |title=A Survey of Word Accentual Patterns in the Languages of the World |date=2010 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-019631-3 |page=551 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZGUEQmFqfMC&dq=Badeshi+language&pg=PA551 }}</ref> The language is critically endangered and considered at risk of extinction. In 2018, the [[BBC]] found three men who could still speak the language.<ref name="BBC" /><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtS4AIMlSZ8 |title=The language only three men speak - BBC News |date=26 February 2018 |last=BBC News |access-date=5 November 2024 |via=YouTube}}</ref><br />
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Muhammad Zaman Sagar, a field linguist connected to the Forum for Language Initiative, has worked on this language. But as a result of his research during two years, he collected only about one hundred words.<ref name="BBC" /> In July 2007, he visited the [[Bishigram Valley]] again and spent some days with the people there. There are efforts to retain a record of the language by linguist [[Zubair Torwali]] among others.<ref name="Dawn2018"/> Torwali has posited that it may be related to [[Yidgha language|Yidgha]] or [[Wakhi language|Wakhi]].<ref name="Dawn2018">{{Cite news |last=Khaliq |first=Fazal |date=10 January 2018 |title=Swat's ancient language breathing its last |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1381971 |work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |access-date=30 September 2024}}</ref><br />
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== Usage ==<br />
In 2018, BBC reporters found three old men (Said Gul, Ali Sher and Rahim Gul) who could still speak Badeshi in the [[Bishigram Valley]] in [[Northern Pakistan]].<ref name="BBC">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43194056|title=Only three people speak this language|last=Syed|first=Zafar|date=26 February 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=5 November 2024|language=en-GB}}</ref> They claimed that the language had initially been spoken by nine or ten families in their village, but that the [[Torwali language]] had taken over. The men had also worked in tourist areas in the [[Swat District|Swat Valley]], where they spoke [[Pashto]]. Some [[romanised]] phrases of Badeshi were:<ref name="BBC" /><br />
* {{lang|bdz-Latn|Meen naao Rahim Gul thi}} – My name is Rahim Gul<br />
* {{lang|bdz-Latn|Meen Badeshi jibe aasa}} – I speak Badeshi<br />
* {{lang|bdz-Latn|Theen haal khale thi?}} – How do you do?<br />
* {{lang|bdz-Latn|May grot khekti}} – I have eaten<br />
* {{lang|bdz-Latn|Ishu kaale heem kam ikthi}} – There is not much snowfall this year<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027113527/http://geocities.com/kcs_kalam/badeshi.html The Badeshi People in Bishigram and Tirat valley, Swat]<br />
* [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43194056 Badeshi: Only three people speak this 'extinct' language]<br />
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{{Languages of Pakistan}}<br />
{{Indo-Iranian languages}}<br />
[[Category:Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]<br />
[[Category:Indo-Iranian languages]]<br />
[[Category:Critically endangered languages]]<br />
[[Category:Unclassified Indo-European languages]]</div>ClairBoone