Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an Indo-Iranian people inhabiting Nuristan.
- noun Any of the Indo-Iranian languages spoken by the Nuristani.
- noun A subbranch of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family consisting of the languages of the Nuristani.
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- noun Any member of an
ethnic group found mostly in the Nuristan, Laghman and Kunarprovinces ofAfghanistan , now generallyMuslim but having once had anIndo-Iranian polytheistic religion .
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Examples
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They form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, which consists of two other language groups: the Iranian and Nuristani.
What language? 2009
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They form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, which consists of two other language groups: the Iranian and Nuristani.
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Worried for her safety, I reminded her that, during the 2005 parliamentary campaign in her province, another female candidate, Hawa Nuristani, and several of her staff had been shot.
Ann Jones: Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam: The American Midterm Election -- in Afghanistan Ann Jones 2010
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They form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, which consists of two other language groups: the Iranian and Nuristani.
What language? 2009
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If you were a Nuristani, eager to cast a vote for a splendid woman candidate, and the ballots never came, what in the world would you make of that?
Ann Jones: Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam: The American Midterm Election -- in Afghanistan Ann Jones 2010
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The new system should include established practices and political values that accept and incorporate the ethnic divisions between the country's major and minor ethnic groups: the Pashtuns and Tajiks (both historically Iranian), Hazaras, Uzbeks, Aimak, Turkmen, Baluch, Nuristani and other small groups.
Mike Signer: Vision of a State: Ultra-Federalism in Afghanistan 2010
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It was the deployment of U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in 2006 to Kamdesh, a jumble of narrow valleys wedged between Alpine peaks, that forged an alliance, based on common hatred of the infidel, between Nuristani tribal leaders, the Taliban and local Hezb-i-Islami commanders loyal to warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Afghan Rebels Discuss Peace as U.S. Pulls Back Yaroslav Trofimov 2010
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The colonel has also mastered the intricacies of the Nuristani tribe.
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Nuristani after he criticized a U.S. airstrike that allegedly killed civilians.
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The Kom and the Kushtowz, another Nuristani subtribe, have been fighting over water rights for a century, says Lt.Col. Kolenda.
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