These languages — several of them belonging to Dardic, a group of Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan languages — as introduced in the book, include: Dameli: Spoken by about 5,000 natives in the Damel ...
the old language of Persia/Iran, and ‘Indo Aryan’ i.e. Sanskritic are very close akin indeed. My mother is a Parsi, so I was fascinated to see that the Aryans may well have been Zoroastrians.
On the other hand, Saurashtra is a language of the Indo-Aryan family spoken by the Gujarati Hindu Brahmin community that migrated to Tamil Nadu from southern Gujarat after the fall of Somnath ...