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Ashkun

language of Afghanistan
Intangible natural_language Q29379
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Summary

Ashkun is a natural language[1]. Ashkun draws 140 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #328 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Kunar Province[3]
  • Country: Afghanistan[4]
  • Instance of: modern language[5]
  • Subclass of: Nuristani[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ashkun language[7]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 40,000[8]
  • UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[9]
  • Indigenous to: Kunar Province[10], Nuristan Province[11]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ASK[12]
  • Ethnologue language status: 6a Vigorous[13]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[14]
  • Entry in abbreviations table: Ash.[15]
  • P14940: bll-505654245[16]

Why It Matters

Ashkun has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] Ashkun is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Afghanistan

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14940 → bll-505654245
    Exact match → http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AS
    Wikipedia languages → ['azb', 'bg', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', 'hi', 'hr', 'hy',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Exact match: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-505654245"
  2. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in → —
    Unesco language status → 3 definitely endangered
    Instance of → natural language, modern language
    Country → Afghanistan
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Exact match: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-505654245"
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