Back ছাৱী ভাষা Assamese زبان ساوی Persian Sawi Finnish Sawi French サウ語 Japanese Savi Occitan Lenga savi PMS Língua sawi Portuguese ᱥᱟᱣᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ (ᱰᱟᱨᱰᱤᱠ) SAT Sawigiella SE
| Sawi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Afghanistan, Pakistan |
Native speakers | 9,000 (2021)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sdg |
| Glottolog | savi1242 |
| ELP | Savi |
Sawi, Savi, or Sauji,[3] is an endangered[4] Indo-Aryan language spoken in northeastern Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan.[5] It is classified as a member of the Shina language cluster within the Dardic subgroup.
It is spoken in the village of Sau, on the east bank of the Kunar River, around 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the town of Arandu, which is on the border with Pakistan's Chitral region.[6] Sawi speakers consider themselves part of the Gawar ethnic group, which is found in half a dozen of the surrounding villages and whose language is Gawarbati. In communicating with them, the people of Sau reportedly resort to using Pashto.[7] During the long period of unrest, the population of the village was displaced into refugee camps in Chitral and Dir, but reportedly many people have now returned to Afghanistan.[6]
- ^ Sawi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Dangari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-11-06. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ Sauji is the endonym reported in Liljegren (2009, p. 10)
- ^ Bashir 2016b, pp. 640–41.
- ^ "Savi". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
- ^ a b Liljegren 2009, p. 10.
- ^ Cacopardo & Cacopardo 2001, pp. 96, 231–32.
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