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The ParyaLanguage is an unclassified CentralZoneIndoAryanLanguage of Tajikistan. SIL code: PAQ. ISO 639-2: inc. Population: 1,000 in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan (1960). Population total all countries: 1,000 or more. Region: Hissar Valley in Tajikistan and some in the upper part of the Surkhandarya Valley in Uzbekistan. Also spoken in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan. Alternate names: AFGHANA-YI NASFURUSH, AFGHANA-YI SIYA RUI, LAGHMANI, PBHARYA. Comments It may be a dialect of Marwari, related to Panjabi, or the Laghman dialect of Southeast Pashayi of Afghanistan. Subgroups: Kalu, Jitain, Juni, Maggar, Bisiyan, Mussali, Shuiya. Bilingualism in Tajiki. Parya remains the exclusive language within the home. Uzbek and Tajiki men who marry Parya women learn Parya and become assimilated into the community. They came to Tajikistan from Laghman, Afghanistan in 1880. They refer to themselves as 'Changgars'. Subgroup names are similar to those of the Changgars of Lahore, and to names used for groups mistakenly called 'Gypsies.' Collective farm workers. Sunni Muslim. Also spoken in: Afghanistan. (Language name: PARYA.) Alternate names: AFGHANA-YI NASFURUSH, AFGHANA-YI SIYARUI, LAGHMANI. Comments: It may be related to Panjabi, or the Laghman dialect of Southeast Pashayi of Afghanistan. Bilingualism in Tajiki. Parya remains the exclusive language within the home. Literacy rate in first language: Below 1%. Literacy rate in second language: 5% to 15%.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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