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PISACA LANGUAGES

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PISACA

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LANGUAGES  , the name which has been given to a
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family of
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languages spoken immediately to the
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south of the
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Hindu Kush, and
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north of the frontier of
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British
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India . The family includes the
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group of Kafir languages spoken in
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Kafiristan, Khowar, spoken in the
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Chitral
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country, and the group of Shina languages, which includes the Shina of
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Gilgit, Kohistani, spoken in the Kohistans of the
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Indus and
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Swat
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rivers, and
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Kashmiri . Of all these Kashmiri is the only one which has received any
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literary cultivation, and of which the number of speakers is known . The Pisaca languages are
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Aryan by origin, but are neither Iranian nor Indo-Aryan . (See INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES and KASHMIR1.) (G . A .

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