![]() ![]() Social media, Skype, and other communication technologies play an expanding and considerably crucial role in language maintenance and transmission for Pashai speakers in the diaspora, thus constituting a spatial expansion of Pashai use through virtual connections. This chapter will examine the spatial and situational dynamics of changing gender roles and spatial access to language within the Pashai-speaking community as well as language use patterns among younger community members. Conversely, female Pashai speakers are more likely to be monolingual, particularly when their access to public space is limited. An increase in multilingualism has eroded the reproduction of Pashai, especially among men. ![]() In Afghanistan, the dominance of the two national languages, Pashto and Dari, in the public spaces of education, commerce and politics have had a negative effect on minority language maintenance. The authors look at the intersecting roles of gender and geographic space in language use patterns in areas of Afghanistan with a higher-density of Pashai speakers in comparison with the spatially diffuse diaspora. Pashai speakers are an Afghan linguistic minority (less than 1% of the population). This chapter examines the language practices of various Pashai-speaking communities in Afghanistan and in the diaspora. ![]()
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