Demsie of 'Badeshi' in Swat - Pashtunization of Malakand

[Friends of Baloch]

Interesting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-43194056

This seems to be a good example of how local Indics and gypsies etc in the traditionally non-Pashtun parts of what is now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa over the past few hundred years have ended up being absorbed and assimilated among Pashtuns.

The Indic narrative that Afghans killed the local Indics / gypsies/ Hindus whatever or displaced them by force over time in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa i think would have been the exception rather than the norm. Seems more likely that these Indics / gypsies just abanoned their own languages and identities and tried to assimilate into the dominant power like in the article above.

[Sarbani]

Not exactly Pashtunification in this case. It says that they're switching from Badeshi to Torwali. Interesting how bringing women to the area sped up the demise of Badeshi. I would have thought that women would be more likely to adapt into the men's language rather than impose their own language there.

One of the older men speaking looks Punjabi but the others in the video look fairly typical for Pashtuns. I wonder how significantly different the Dards would have looked before the Pashtun colonization of the area. Pashtuns are definitely mixed with them since Pashtuns in the north (Eastern Afghanistan, KPK, FATA) tend to be a bit more South-Asian shifted than those in the south (Kandahar, Quetta).

[Friends of Baloch]

Not exactly Pashtunification in this case. It says that they're switching from Badeshi to Torwali. Interesting how bringing women to the area sped up the demise of Badeshi. I would have thought that women would be more likely to adapt into the men's language rather than impose their own language there.

One of the older men speaking looks Punjabi but the others in the video look fairly typical for Pashtuns. I wonder how significantly different the Dards would have looked before the Pashtun colonization of the area. Pashtuns are definitely mixed with them since Pashtuns in the north (Eastern Afghanistan, KPK, FATA) tend to be a bit more South-Asian shifted than those in the south (Kandahar, Quetta).

This 'Badeshi' language might have given way to 'Torwali' but 'Torwali' is in turn, being supplanted by Pashto according to the article. So it is a kind of Pashtunization of these so called "Dards" (a pretty fake term) as far as language goes.