Khetrani language
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".<templatestyles src="Template:Infobox/styles-images.css" />Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Khetrānī, or Khetranki,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". is an Indo-Aryan language of north-eastern Balochistan. It is spoken by the majority of the Khetrans,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". an ethnolinguistic tribe that occupies a hilly tract in the Sulaiman Mountains comprising the whole of Barkhan District as well as small parts of neighbouring Kohlu District to the south-west, and Musakhel District to the north.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Alternative names for the language attested at the start of the 20th century are Barāzai and Jāfaraki.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Khetrani has grammatical features in common with both Sindhi and with Saraiki,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". but is not mutually intelligible with either.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Khetrani has a relatively small number of Balochi loanwords in its vocabulary.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Khetrani was formerly a dialect continuum of both Sindhi and Saraiki.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
It is likely to have been formerly spoken over a wider area, which has been reduced with the expansion of Pashto from the north and Balochi from the south-east.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The earlier suggestion that Khetrani might be a remnant of a Dardic languageScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". has been found "difficult to substantiate" by more detailed recent research.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
History
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The Khetrans. It is certain that the whole of the triangular block of hill now occupied by the Marris was in the possession of Indian tribes before the Baloch invasion. They were gradually destroyed or absorbed by the Baloch from the south and the Afghans from the north and such names as Shahdedja among the Marris and Haripal among the Afghans to the north indicate that fragments of these tribes remain among the Baloch and the Afghans. The Khetrans however between the Afghan and the Baloch have preserved their identity and their peculiar Indian dialect to the present day.[2]
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Footnotes
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "Footnotes". estimate that it is spoken by at least 100,000 people out of an ethnic population of about 150,000. Two decades previously, Script error: No such module "Footnotes". had estimated the number of speakers between 40,000 and 45,000.
- ↑ E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936 By M. Th. Houtsma, A. J. Wensinck page 631
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