Kamviri dialect

Kamviri
کامويري
Native to	Afghanistan, Pakistan
Region	Bashgal Valley, and Southern Chitral District, Langorbat, Badrugal and the Urtsun Valley
Native speakers	20,000 (2011)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Nuristani Kamkata-viri Kamviri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`xvi`
Glottolog	`kamv1242`^[2]
Linguasphere	`58-ACB-ad`

Kamviri (کامويري) is a dialect of the Kamkata-viri language spoken by 5,000 to 10,000 of the Kom people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. There are slight dialectal differences of the Kamviri speakers of Pakistan. The most used alternative names are Kati, Kamozi or Bashgali.

References

↑ Kamviri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kamviri". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Bibliography

The Kom. Retrieved July 2, 2006, from Richard F. Strand: Nuristan, Hidden Land of the Hindu-Kush .

External links

Kamviri dialect test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

Strand, Richard F. (1997). "Nuristan: Hidden Land of the Hindu Kush". Retrieved 2012-01-16.
Strand, Richard F. (1999). "Kâmv'iri Lexicon". Retrieved 2012-01-16.
Strand, Richard F. (1997). "The Sound System of Kâmv'iri". Retrieved 2012-01-16.

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