Prasun language

E45675

The Prasun language is a Nuristani language spoken by the Prasun (Vasi) people in parts of eastern Afghanistan.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Prasun language canonical 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nuristani language
natural language
subject of linguistic study
alternativeName Prasuni
Vasi-vari
Vasi-weri
Vasi-weri
surface form: Wasí-weri
branchOf Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
classificationStatus part of the Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian
country Afghanistan
dataAvailability limited descriptive grammars
limited lexical resources
poorly documented language
distinctFrom Indo-Aryan languages
Iranian languages
endangermentStatus endangered language
ethnicGroupAssociated Prasun
hasDomain folklore
local religious practices
oral literature
hasLinguisticFeature contrastive vowel length
rich verbal morphology
subject–object–verb basic word order
tonal or pitch-accent distinctions (reported)
hasSociolinguisticSituation subject to language shift toward dominant regional languages
hasSpeakerPopulation small number of speakers
ISO639-3Code prn
languageFamily Nuristani
languageStatus minority language
primaryUse everyday oral communication
traditional cultural practices
region Nuristan Province
Parun Valley
eastern Afghanistan
relatedTo Ashkun language
Kamviri language
Kati language
Waigali language
spokenBy Prasun people
Vasi people
spokenIn mountainous areas
rural communities
subfamilyOf Nuristani languages
surface form: Southern Nuristani languages
transmission primarily transmitted orally
usedAlongside Dari Persian
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
writingSystem no widely used standard writing system

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nuristani languages hasMember Prasun language
Vasi-weri alternativeNameOf Prasun language
Parun Valley languageSpoken Prasun language
Prasun hasLanguage Prasun language
Vasi people languageSpoken Prasun language
Vasi people nativeLanguage Prasun language
Waigali language neighboringLanguage Prasun language