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Gujari 105
1. Kunar Gujari (Kunar Province, Afghanistan)
2. Chitral Gujari (Ashriki)
3. Dir Gujari (near Sheringal)
4. Settled Swat Gujari (Peshmal)
5. Transhumant Swat Gujari (Ragushu)
6. Gilgit Gujari (Naltar Bala)
7. Kaghan Gujari (Mittikot)
8. Southern Hazara Gujari (Tarchatti)
9. Northern Azad Kashmir Gujari (Subri)
10. Central Azad Kashmir Gujari (Trarkhel)
11. Southern Azad Kashmir Gujari (Kotli)
12. Gujranwala Gujari (immigrants from Agra area, India)
13. Poonch Gojri (Mendhar, Poonch District, Indian-held
Kashmir)
All of these lists come from settled Gujar communities;
however, many of them are from locations where the inhabitants
practice some sort of seasonal migration. For some communities,
seasonal migration involves moving to nearby higher altitudes,
perhaps only a few miles above their winter villages. One list,
which has been labelled as Transhumant Swat Gujari, was
collected from a Gujar group which could be called seminomadic
since their seasonal migration takes them from one end
of the Swat Valley to the other.
The Kunar word list was elicited from a refugee from Kunar
Province in Afghanistan. He had been living in Chitral, outside
his homeland, for two years. The man seemed language-aware
and stated his opinion that there is very little difference between
his language and the Gujari spoken in the Chitral area and in
Peshmal, Swat Valley. 8
The Chitral word list was elicited and checked in Ashriki
village near the roadside town of Tharo in Shishi Koh Valley,
8 This subject scored 100 percent on the recorded text testing of taped
speech samples from Chitral and Peshmal, performances that support the
indicators that Gujari in Afghanistan may be very similar to these Western
varieties. Although he was tested while the Chitral-area subjects were
participating in the recorded text testing, his score was not included in the
Chitral sample since he was not native to that dialect area. The recorded text
testing procedure and results are described in the last half of this chapter.