Nuristani language

[Vlatko Vukovic]

The Nuristani languages were not described in literature until the 19th century. The older name for the region was Kafiristan and the languages were termed Kafiri or Kafiristani, but the terms have been replaced by the present ones since the conversion of the region to Islam in 1896.

There are three different theories about the origins of the Nuristani languages and their place within the Indo-Iranian languages:

following the studies of Georg Morgenstierne, Nuristani has generally been regarded as one of three primary sub-groups of Indo-Iranian (alongside Iranian and Indo-Aryan);
suggestions that Nuristani may instead be a branch of the Indo-Aryan subgroup, due to the evident similarity with Dardic languages, and;
it has also been proposed that Nuristani originated within the Iranian sub-group, and was later influenced by an Indo-Aryan language, such as Dardic.

The languages were previously often grouped with Indo-Aryan or Iranian until they were finally classified as forming a third branch in Indo-Iranian.



Well, was Nuristani direct descedant of common proto-Indo-Iranian stage, or it could be attributed to one of the 2 major subgroups (Iranian and Indo-Aryan), and, if it was, why the name of common proto-language-stage is not Proto-Indo-Iranian-Nuristani but simply Proto-Indo-Iranian?

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Waigal language of nuristan province, Afghanistan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFxcF1fDfSI