Dardistan refers to a linguistic area where Dardic languages are spoken. The terms "Dardic" and "Dardistan" are not indigenous to the region, and were coined by Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner. The legitimacy of the term has been called into question. [1] . The region also includes a number of non-Dardic peoples and languages. [2]

Dardic is simply a convenient term to denote a bundle of aberrant [Indo-Aryan] hill-languages which, in their relative isolation, accented in many cases by the invasion of Pathan tribes, have been in varying degrees sheltered against the expand influence of [Indo-Aryan] Midland (Madhyadesha) innovations, being left free to develop on their own.

The Dards are a group of un-mixed Indo-Aryan people living in Northern Pakistan, Western Jammu & Kashmir, and Eastern Afghanistan who speak the Dardic languages. A very small minority also live in Xinjiang , China and Tajikistan .

Ladakhi, Balti, and Dard peoples live to the north of the Great Himalaya Range in the Kashmir Himalayas. The Dard speak Indo-European languages, while the others are Tibeto-Burman speakers. The Champa traditionally lead a nomadic pastoral life in the upper Indus valley. The Ladakhi have settled on terraces…

2022年9月5日 · The Dards, who were mentioned by the classical authors Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, and Herodotus, are believed to be people of Aryan descent who ascended the Indus Valley from the Punjab plains and reached as far north as Chitral.

Dardistan, region inhabited by the Dard peoples in the north of Pakistan and northern Kashmir. It includes Chitral, the upper reaches of the Panjkora River, the Kohistan (“Highlands”) of Swat, and Gilgit-Baltistan. The Dards are known to history since ancient times, mentioned by classical

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The Dards are a group of un-mixed Indo-Aryan people living in Northern Pakistan, Western Jammu & Kashmir, and Eastern Afghanistan who speak the Dardic languages. A very small minority also live in Xinjiang, China and Tajikistan.

No people in the Karakoram and vicinity today refer to themselves as Dards, their country as Dardistan, or their language as Dardic. The word dard itself is unknown in any languages of the area, except as a loan word from Persian via Urdu, in which it means "pain". Why should a term with no self-referentiality be so widely used by scholars today?

2020年9月20日 · Dards are a group of peoples who speak languages that belong to Dardic branch of Indo-Iranian languages. They live in a territory between Kabul, Ladakh, Chitral and Southern Kashmir – within borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The term “Dard” was brought from Sanskrit texts and from “History” by Herodotus.