BADESHI

Only three people speak this 'extinct' language

Badeshi is a language only three people in the world speak and they are afraid that the language will end when they die. Badeshi used to be spoken in an entire village of northern Pakistan but now is considered endangered.

Over the decades, even the three men started to forget the language. Now, in the area they live, people only speak Torwali so they couldn’t talk in Badeshi fluently.

Maybe is to late now to save Badeshi but at least we can learn a few words to keep the memory of the language:

“Meen naao thi” means My name is

“Meen Badeshi jibe aasa” means I speak Badeshi

“Theen haal khale thi?” means How do you do?

I feel very sad for those men. They will see how their language disappears considering that they are the only three men who speak Badeshi. I am so sorry for them because they will see how their children miss that language; they also will forget how to talk because in the entire village the official language is Torwali. I think in the entire world there are lots of endangered languages and whenever they die out, part of the world culture will become extinct forever.