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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the Indo-Iranian languages of the Nuristani. No longer in scientific use.
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- noun a Dardic language spoken by the Kafir in northeastern Afghanistan
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The Hausas refused to be federated with southerners and other non-Muslims whom they considered "Kafiri".
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For Kochhar (2000: 186, 222) "non-RgVedic Aryans" (presumably he means speakers of Dardic or Kafiri languages) arrived around 2000 (or 1700) BC, to be followed by the "actual RgVedic people" in around 1400 BC.
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008
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Meanwhile, the languages of the Kafiri-Nuristani and Dardic language families, spoken in northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, have forms of Indo-Aryan that are considered earlier than their counterparts in Avestan and the RgVeda (Witzel 1995a:
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008
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