haviZsultan
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The Urmar people are not 1000 or so,but in thousands.100% of ormar also know pashto as second language.I have many of them as my friend and some even relatives though those has already given up the ormari language and speak pashto as first language.
I can invite him to the forum,a relative of fine but as said,he i think doesn't know the language though,he's a ormari or burki
You would definitely know better than me not from being within that region. My information derives from secondary sources, not primary sources and am dependent on them for most of my research. Also a lot of it comes from wikipedia which is often personalized for people with differing views. One day I searched for Sarfraz Bugti and it led me to a wikipedia page full of insults to him and Punjabis probably by some Indian or maybe BLA cadre.
According to these secondary sources the population is counted as 1000 max as the ones (Burki) in Afghanistan, (Barki Barak have already abandoned it). Wikipedia recently changed it to 6000 because I remember pretty clearly remember reading 1000 once. Thousands is pretty low for any language too and we should help burkis preserve the language, culture and saints graves as they are also essentially pashtun or in other words Pakistani.
Yes they know Pashto. They are surrounded on all sides by Maseed habitations and other Pashto speakers and have the language. Pir Roshan or Bayazid Ansari, possibly from my family is from there as well (I am ansari from one side-abdullah ansari is a known ancestor). He brought up the Roshaniya movement, in that time a secular marvel which suggested women should be educated and learning wasn't just limited to man too though Khushal Khan Khattak stood against it.