Inku

Language spoken in Afghanistan

Languagelanguage modern languageQ4159744

Also known as Inku language

Indigenous to: Balkh Province
, Faryab Province
, Herat Province

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Inku is an Indo-Aryan language spoken, at least historically, throughout Afghanistan by four of the country's itinerant communities: the Jalali, the Pikraj, the Shadibaz and the Vangawala. Itinerant communities in Afghanistan, whether Inku-speaking or not, are locally known as "Jats", a term which is not a self-designation of the groups but rather a collective, often pejorative name given by outsiders. The reference work Ethnologue has an entry for what could be this language, but under the name Jakati, but that entry is at least partly erroneous.

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Ethnologue language status: 9 Dormant
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1.Stated in Ethnologueethnologue.com/language/jatRetrieved 2019-05-09
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Country: Afghanistan
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1.“ScriptSource - Afghanistan”scriptsource.org/country/AFRetrieved 2023-08-21
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8 identifiers linking Inku across the web's reference databases

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