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Encyclopedia > Domaaki language
Domaaki
Spoken in: Pakistan 
Region: Hunza Valley
Total speakers: 500 (1989)
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Dardic
   Domaaki 
Official status
Official language of: none
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: none
ISO/DIS 639-3: dmk 

Domaaki - also known as Dumaki or Doma - is a language spoken in parts of northern Pakistan. This page is about the town of Hunza in northern areas of Pakistan. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred languages and dialects (443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and Southern Asia. ... The Indo-Iranian languages are the language links between India and Iran. ... The Dardic languages form a subfamily of the Indo-Iranian languages. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ... Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This is a concise version of the International Phonetic Alphabet for English sounds. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...


It belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Dardic group of the Indo-Iranian branch. The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred languages and dialects (443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and Southern Asia. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... The Dardic languages form a subfamily of the Indo-Iranian languages. ... The Indo-Iranian languages are the language links between India and Iran. ...


It was spoken by an estimated 500 people in 1989 by a people known as 'Bericho', 'Dom' or 'Doma', who are largely Muslim. A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian: مسلمان) is an adherent of Islam. ...


It is spoken in the northern parts of the Gilgit District of Pakistan, mainly in a few villages in the Hunza Valley. Gilgit District is bounded by Wakhan Corridor (Afghanistan) in the north, Xinjiang (China) in the north / northeast, Skardu District in the south / southeast. ... This page is about the town of Hunza in northern areas of Pakistan. ...


References

  • Domaaki. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.
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