Kalkoti (کھعلکوٹ ى)

Kalkoti is a member of the Dardic branch of the Indo-Aryan language family. It is spoken by about 6,600 people in the northwest of Pakistan in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, mainly in villages in Kalkot Tehsil, an administrative subdivision of the Upper Dir District.

Kalkoti is also known as Goedijaa. It is rarely written, but can be written with a version of the Arabic alphabet.

Arabic alphabet for Kalkoti

Download an alphabet chart for Kalkoti (Excel)

Details of the Kalkoti alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel

Sample video in Kalkoti

Links

Information about Kalkoti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalkoti_language
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/xka
https://journals.dartmouth.edu/
https://mpi-lingweb.shh.mpg.de/numeral/Kalkoti.htmyou

Dardic languages

Gawri, Indus Kohistani, Kalkoti, Kashmiri, Khowar, Palula, Sawi, Shina, Torwali

Languages written with the Arabic script

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