Adurgari

{{Short description|Secret language of Afghanistan}}

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|name =Adurgari

|creator=Shaikh Mohammadi

|setting=trade

|family =secret cant

|posteriori = local varieties of Persian?

|iso3=none

|glotto=adur1234

|glottorefname=Adurgari

}}

Ādurgari is a secret language of the nomadic Shaikh Mohammadi group of peddlers of east Afghanistan, used especially in the presence of outsiders. It is taught to children starting at the age of six or seven as they would be speaking Persian until then;{{Cite book |last=Pstrusińska |first=Jadwiga |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ptUxBwAAQBAJ&dq=Adurgari&pg=PA36 |title=Secret Languages of Afghanistan and Their Speakers |date=2014 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-6441-1 |language=en}} all adults speak it in addition to their native Dari.{{cite book| last = Olesen| first = A.| year = 1987| chapter = Peddling in East Afghanistan: Adaptive Strategies of the Peripatetic Sheikh Mohammadi| pages = 35–63| title = The Other Nomads: Peripatetic Minorities in Cross-Cultural Perspective| editor-last = Rao| editor-first = Aparna| place = Cologne| publisher = Böhlau| isbn = 3-412-08085-3}} Rao (1986) additionally mentions Pashto as being spoken.{{rp|36}} The name is apparently derived from a word referring to their activity of peddling (ādur), and it has tentatively been suggested this might indicate a possible connection with the Kharduri people of Uzbekistan.{{Cite book| last = Pstrusinska| first = Jadwiga| date = 2013| title = Secret languages of Afghanistan and their speakers| publisher = Cambridge Scholars Publishing| location = Newcastle upon Tyne| isbn = 978-1-4438-6441-1|pages=36–37}}

The following five words are attested in the language: čamlai 'bread', danab 'girl, woman', duka 'house', lām 'meat', and rašuk 'man'.{{cite journal|last = Rao | first = Aparna | year = 1995 | title = Marginality and language use: the example of peripatetics in Afghanistan | journal = Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society | volume = 5 | issue = 2 | pages = 69–95|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015077550260;view=1up;seq=11}}