Gawar-Bati or Narsati is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Kunar Province of eastern Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan.
Gawar-Bati has an estimated 75,000 speakers, of whom 50,000 are in Kunar and 25,000 in Chitral, Pakistan.
The Gawar-Bati language has not been given serious study by linguists, except that it is mentioned by George Morgenstierne (1926) and Kendall Decker (1992).
[2] The following tables set out the phonology of the Gawar-Bati language:[3] The status of short /e/ and /o/ is unclear.
A breathy voiced series, /bʱ dʱ gʱ/, existed recently in older speakers—and may still do so.