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Vasi-vari
Spoken in	Afghanistan
Region	Prasun Valley
Total speakers	1,000 (2000)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Nuristani Vasi-vari; ; ;
Official status
Official language in	none
Regulated by	No official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1	none
ISO 639-2	none
ISO 639-3	prn
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Vasi-vari is a language spoken by the Vasi in a few villages in the Prasun Valley in Afghanistan. The most used alternative names are Prasuni or Prasun, which derive from Pashto.

Vasi-vari belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Nuristani group of the Indo-Iranian branch.

Its speakers have been estimated at 1,000 (2000) and are 100% Muslim. Literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as a first language, and between 15% to 25% for people who have it as a second language.

Vasi-vari is the most isolated of the Nuristani languages.

[edit] References

The Vâsi. Retrieved July 02, 2006, from Richard F. Strand: Nuristan, Hidden Land of the Hindu-Kush [1].
Prasuni. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.

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