Typology in Darāg Dialect of Kalkot in Dir Kohistān

Abstract

There are isolated languages in which a word cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts. While there are others in which a compound word may be divided in smaller meaningful components. Two such dialects, Darāg and Bishor, are spoken in Kalkot village in Dīr Kohistān, of which the former is older and more common. Some distinguished features of this dialect are discussed in the following lines. . . .