What is Gawar-Bati language?
{{Infobox language |name= Gawar-Bati |nativename= {{lang|gwt|{{nq|گواربتی بݰہ}}}} |altname=Narsati |states= [[Pakistan]], [[Afghanistan]] |region= [[Chitral]], [[Kunar Province]] |speakers= 9,500 |date=1992 |ref=e14<!--later editions omit the date for Afghanistan--> |familycolor= Indo-European |fam2=[[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] |fam3=[[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] |fam4=[[Dardic languages|Dardic]] |fam5=[[Kunar languages|Kunar]] |iso3= gwt |glotto=gawa1247 |glottorefname=Gawar-Bati }} '''Gawar-Bati''' is known in [[Chitral]] as '''Aranduyiwar''', because it is spoken in Village Arandu, which is the last village in the bottom of Chitral and is across the Kunar River from Berkot in [[Afghanistan]]. Chitral keeps a military base in Arandu to guard against an attack by Afghanistan. There are 9,000 speakers of Gawar-Bati, but only 1,500 are in [[Pakistan]]. The rest are in Afghanistan. The Gawar-Bati Language has not been given study by serious linguists, except that it is mentioned by George Morgenstierne (1926) and Kendall Decker (1992). It is classified as a Dardic Language but this is more of a geographical classification than a linguistic one. The Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are spoken here. These include Kalasha-mun, Palula, Dameli, Gawar-Bati, Nuristani, [[Yidgha language|Yidgha]], Burushaski, [[Gurjar|Gujar]], Wakhi, Kyrgyz, Persian and [[Pashto]]. Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in Urdu or Persian. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Asia-stub}} [[Category:Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] [[Category:Languages of Afghanistan]] [[Category:Dardic languages]]