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Name: Brahui

Alternate Names: Brahuidi; Birahui; Brahuigi; Kur Galli; Brahuiki; Brahudi

Spoken in: Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan

Number of speakers: 2,000,000 in Pakistan (1998). Population total all countries: 2,220,000 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 500000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 2210000 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: brh

Code Authority: ISO 639-3

Code Standard: SIL

Families: Dravidian (Elamo-Dravidian)

Parent Subgroup: Northern Dravidian; Proto-North Dravidian; North Dravidian (ndrv)

Child Dialects: Sarawan (brh-sar) Kalat (brh-kal) Jharawan (brh-jha)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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