Mumviri | |
States: | Afghanistan |
Region: | basin of eastern Nuristan |
Speakers: | perhaps 1,500 |
Date: | 1998 |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | Indo-European |
Fam2: | Indo-Iranian |
Fam3: | Nuristani |
Fam4: | Northern |
Fam5: | Kamkata-vari |
Isoexception: | dialect |
Glotto: | mumv1239 |
Glottorefname: | Mumviri |
Lingua: | 58-ACB-ac |
Notice: | Indic |
Mumviri is a dialect of the Nuristani Kamkata-vari language, spoken by perhaps 1,500 of the Mumo people of Afghanistan. There are only slight differences to the Kata-vari, Mumviri has Kamviri phonetic features. The most used alternative name is Bashgali, which derive from Khowar.
Mumviri is spoken in the Mangul, Sasku and Gabalgrom in the Bashgal Valley.