Language Variegation across the Pamir-Hindukush-Karakoram â Perceptions and Mobilities

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The position of small languages has often been a history of disregard and neglect. This observation especially holds true in areas such as the mountainous interface between South and Central Asia which is characterized by a huge variegation of languages belonging to Indo-Iranian, Altaic, Sino-Tibetan and isolated language groups. At the same time the transition from English to Russian and Chinese as the dominant colonial languages has been taking place. They served administrative purposes and still most administrative and census reports are written in those lan-guages. It might be attributed to an absence of a dominant lingua franca that in the Karakoram and Eastern Hindukush English still supersedes Urdu or any vernacular. With more than twenty different languages spoken within the area we are faced with a situation of linguistic super-diversity. A multitude of languages remain unre-corded and/or are hidden in areas of ambiguity. Comparisons with historical lan-guage descriptions and colonial records reveal dynamism of mobility in those regions which is regularly denied. Migration processes can often be linked to linguistic groups and have resulted in peculiar cultivation and settlement patterns. In this paper, based on extensive fieldwork, six attributions related to migration processes will be distinguished of which four â autochthonous languages; Indic languages of early migrants; later immigrants and refugees from Eastern Iranian and Altaic lan-guage groups; and immigration of Gujur nomads from the Indus Basin â are related to âhistoricalâ mobility that help scholars understand settlement processes, immigra-tion and mobility within the mountain area. The latter two more recent develop-ments focus on an enhanced process of intra-mountainous migration within the Pamir-Hindukush-Karakoram-Himalaya interface on the one hand and mobility between the predominantly rural high mountain areas and the urban centres in the forelands. A second aspect is that these languages are heard and read in recent years. The emergence of everyday use of electronic communication devices and social media has bought up a new dimension of language use in remote mountain valleys and across borders.

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Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond

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