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ALSO KNOWN AS		Gabaro, Gabar Khel, Dardu
CLASSIFICATION		Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Northwestern Zone
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		gwf
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Information from: “Language policy, multilingualism and language vitality in Pakistan” (73-106) . Tariq Rahman (2006) , Anju Saxena and Lars Borin · Mouton de Gruyter

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1000
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2003

MORE ON VITALITY

"Hallberg (in SSNP Vol. 1, 1992: 131). says that ‘it would seem that the dominance of Shina may be slowly erasing the use of Gowro’. Baart (2003) confirms that only a 1000 speakers are left now and it may be dying."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Shina

PLACES: Pakistan

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: "Spoken on the east bank of the Indus in Distinct Kohistan mainly in the village of Mahrin"

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1990

PLACES: Pakistan

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Pakistan

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Mahrin, on the east bank of the Indus

Routledge Language Family Series		2003	Dardic	The Indo-Aryan Languages	818-894	George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain	London & New York: Routledge			Elena Bashir	Bashir, Elena. 2003. "Dardic." In The Indo-Aryan Languages, edited by George Cardona and Dhanesh Jain. 818-894. London & New York: Routledge.	HHOLD	200		100-999		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Pakistan	Mahrin, on the east bank of the Indus
	16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)			M. Paul Lewis	SIL International	Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	200	1990	100-999		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Pakistan
		2006	Language policy, multilingualism and language vitality in Pakistan	Lesser-known languages of South Asia: status and policies, case studies and applications of information technology	73-106	Anju Saxena and Lars Borin	Mouton de Gruyter	Berlin		Tariq Rahman	Tariq Rahman. 2006. "Language Policy, Multilingualism and Language Vitality in Pakistan." In Lesser-known languages of South Asia: status and policies, case studies and applications of information technology, edited by Anju Saxena and Lars Borin. 73-106. Mouton de Gruyter.		1000	2003	1000-9999	Shina	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	"Hallberg (in SSNP Vol. 1, 1992: 131). says that ‘it would seem that the dominance of Shina may be slowly erasing the use of Gowro’. Baart (2003) confirms that only a 1000 speakers are left now and it may be dying."	"Spoken on the east bank of the Indus in Distinct Kohistan mainly in the village of Mahrin"	Pakistan
	3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub	200		100-999		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					35.0254,72.9341
			Glottolog						http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/		"Glottolog." Online: http://www.glottolog.org/glottolog/.											35.157472, 73.141853
			World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		200		100-999		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Gowro

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Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1000

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

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Gowro

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Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1000

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

200

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