#dardic

[chezmeh]

traditional pakistani kohistani attire

[pollyj]

"Kalash Religion" by M. Witzel

[peopleofafghanistan]

Young Pashai man with flowers in his hair, out in the fields of Dari Noor.

Source: Todd Huffman

[possessivesuffix]

Modern Indic strikes again

TIL: apparently Dardic is distinguished from the entire rest of Indo-Aryan (including Vedic Sanskrit) by the absense of *ǰʰ > *ɦ (medially at least?), and rather eventual merger with *ǰ, alongside with *Bʰ > *B in general. [x]

The author seems to consider the two to be sister branches entirely, which may be indeed on to something… but then again *Bʰ > *B is also shared by Nuristani, Iranian, Balto-Slavic etc. and will not suffice to establish anything as a group.

Note that primary palatal *ĵʰ (from PIE *ǵʰ) however still turns into *ɦ > ∅ (initially at least?), e.g. PIE *ǵʰes- > PII/PIA *ĵʰasta- > OIA/Skt. hasta > Pkt. hattha > Kashmiri atha ‘hand’. Still, rather than two separate changes *ǰʰ > h and *ĵʰ > h, I’d rather assume a single arealish shift *jʰ > h that was preceded by the merger of *ǰʰ *ĵʰ in mainline Indic but not across Dardic.

[chezmeh]

𝔨𝔞𝔰𝔥𝔪𝔦𝔯: 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢𝔫 ✧˖°⛰️༄

[gunpowderearl]

Kalasha, indigenous people of Pakistan. Currently about 5,000 people speak Kalasha, a Dardic language, sub-branch of the Indo-Iranian group, itself part of the larger Indo-European family, and it is considered critically endangered by UNESCO.