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Badeshi is an unclassified Indo-Iranian language spoken in Pakistan. The language is critically endangered and considered at risk of extinction. In 2018 the
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found three men who could still speak the language. 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. 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. 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. They said that the
Torwali language Torwali () is an Indo-Aryan language mainly spoken in the Bahrain and Chail areas of the Swat District in Pakistan. The language and other non-Pashtun communities are often referred to as "Kohistani" which is a name given by the Swat Pashtuns. ...
had taken over from Badeshi in their village. The men also had worked in tourist areas in the
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where they spoke
Pashto Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official langua ...
. Some phrases of Badeshi were: * - My name is Rahim Gul * - I speak Badeshi * - How do you do? * - I have eaten * - There is not much snowfall this year


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The Badeshi People in Bishigram and Tirat valley, Swat

Badeshi: Only three people speak this 'extinct' language

Badeshi bible scripture
{{Languages of Pakistan Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Indo-Aryan languages