Afghan Languages in a Larger Context of Central and South Asia

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Penn collection
Department of Anthropology Papers
Degree type
Discipline
Subject
Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
Anthropology
Political Science
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Funder
Grant number
License
Copyright date
Distributor
Related resources
Author
Schiffman, Harold F
Contributor
Abstract

The pioneer Western investigator of the languages of Afghanistan, Georg Morgenstierne, who began his work in 1924, called Afghanistan linguistically “one of the most interesting countries on earth.” Linguistic work by local scholars began in the following generation. When one of us [Spooner] first met Dr. A. G. Ravan Farhadi (the author of Le Persan Parlé en Afghanistan, 1953) in Kabul in 1972, he announced that in the latest count the number of languages known in Afghanistan had reached 48.

Advisor
Date Range for Data Collection (Start Date)
Date Range for Data Collection (End Date)
Digital Object Identifier
Book title
Series name and number
Publication date
2012-01-01
Volume number
Issue number
Publisher
Publisher DOI
Journal Issue
Comments
This is a selection from the introduction to Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors: The Changing Politics of Language Choice.
Recommended citation
Collection