What is Indus Kohistani?
{{Infobox language | name = Indus Kohistani | altname = Maiyã | nativename = {{lang|mvy|{{nq|كْستٓى}}}}<br/>''{{transl|mvy|Kōstāĩ}}'' | region = [[Kohistan District, Pakistan|Indus Kohistan]] | speakers = 200,000 | ethnicity = [[Indus Kohistanis]] | date = 1992 | ref = e18 | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] | fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] | fam4 = [[Dardic languages|Dardic]] | fam5 = [[Kohistani languages|Kohistani]] | iso3 = mvy | glotto = indu1241 | glottorefname = Indus Kohistani | script = [[Perso-Arabic script]] ([[Nastaliq]]) | map = Minor languages of Pakistan as of the 1998 census.png | mapcaption = Kohistani is a minor language of Pakistan which is mainly spoken in the Kohistan region, shown on this map. | image = [[File:Kostai in Nastaliq.png|150px]] }} '''Indus Kohistani''' or '''Maiya''' is a [[Dardic languages|Dardic language]] spoken in the [[Kohistan District, Pakistan|Kohistan District]] and the surrounding regions like [[Swat District]] and [[Hazara]]. It is spoken by the [[Kohistani people]] and is the predominant language of Kohistan. It has two dialects, Kohistan and Kanyawali.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://omniglot.com/writing/induskohistani.htm | title=Indus Kohistani language and alphabet }}</ref> It is written in the [[Nastaliq]] variant of the [[Arabic script]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Languages of Pakistan}} [[Category:Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] [[Category:Dardic languages]]