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'''Dameli''' is a language spoken by approximately 5,000 people in the Domel Valley, in the [[Chitral]] District of the [[Northwest Frontier Province]] of Pakistan.
The Domel Valley is about ten miles south of Drosh on the East Side of the Chitral River, on the road from the Mirkhani Fort to the pass of Arandu.
The main source of information on the Dameli Language is an article by [[Georg Morgenstierne]], published in 1942: ''Notes on Dameli: A Kafir-Dardic Language of the Chitral''. A linguistic survey edited by [[Kendall Decker]] (1992) contains a chapter on Dameli. The language is classified as a [[Dardic languages|Dardic Language]] but this is more of a geographical classification than a linguistic one.
Dameli is still the main language in the villages where it is spoken, and is regularly learned by children. Most of the men speak [[Pashto language|Pashto]] as a second language, and some also speak [[Khowar language|Khowar]] and [[Urdu]] but there are no signs of massive language change.
The Norwegian Linguist [http://www.nb.no/baser/morgenstierne/nirmali/nirmali/Imra/Text/sacrifice/sacrifice29.html Georg Morgenstierne] wrote that [[Chitral]] is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although [[Khowar language|Khowar]] is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are spoken here. These include [[Kalasha-mun language|Kalasha-mun]], [[Palula]], Dameli, [[Gawar-Bati language|Gawar-Bati]], [[Nuristani languages|Nuristani]], [[Yidgha]], [[Burushaski language|Burushaski]], [[Gujar#Language|Gujar]], [[Wakhi language|Wakhi]], [[Kyrgyz language|Kyrgyz]], [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[Pashto language|Pashto]]. Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in [[Urdu]] or [[Persian language|Persian]].
== Books ==
* Decker, Kendall D. (1992) Languages of Chitral ISBN 969-8023-15-1 http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=32850
* Morgenstierne, Georg (1926) Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan. Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie C I-2. Oslo. ISBN 0-923891-09-9
* Morgenstierne, Georg (1942) Notes on Dameli. A Kafir-Dardic Language of Chitral. Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap Vol. 12: 115 - 198.
* [[Languages of Pakistan]] [[Badshah Munir Bukhari]]
==External links==
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=dml Dameli, A Language of Pakistan]
* http://www.ling.su.se/ASV/forskning.html#Dameli {{swe icon}}
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