Lingua brahui
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Il linguaggio Brahui (in Urdu: بروہی) o Bravi (براوِ), parlato dai Brahui, si pensa che sia ciò che rimane della lingua dravidica's mainly spoken in south west Pakistan, although it is also spoken in Afghanistan and Iran. The 2005 edition of Ethnologue reports some 2.2 million speakers, 90% of whom live in Pakistan. In Pakistan it is mainly spoken in the Kalat region of Balochistan.
Brahui belongs to the north subfamily of dravidan family of languages. Although it is a language belonging to the Dravidian language family, it has been influenced by the Iranian languages spoken in the area, especially Balochi.
Brahui is widely suggested to be a remnant of a formerly widespread Dravidian language family that is believed to have been reduced or replaced during the influx of Iranic/Aryan languages upon their arrival to Pakistan. It is also been suggested that Brahui might be a direct legacy of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Conversely, it has also been suggested that Brahuis migrated up to Baluchistan after 1000 CE [1], with one scholar placing it in the 13 or 14th century [2].
References
1^ J. H. Elfenbein, "A periplous of the 'Brahui problem'", Studia Iranica 16 (1987), 215-233, quoted after `The Languages of Harappa' by Michael Witzel Feb. 2000, p. 1 [1]
2^ Sergent, Genèse de l'Inde
