Gawar-Bati is known in Chitral as Aranduyiwar because it is spoken in Village Arandu which is the last village in the bottom of Chitral and is across the Kunar River from Berkot in Afghanistan. Chitral keeps a military base in Arandu to guard the Pak-Afghan international border.There are 9000 speakers of Gawar-Bati but only 1500 are in Pakistan.
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ISO 639-3 code
gwt
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Indo-Iranian languages, Dardic languages, Indo-Aryan languages
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