Mumviri dialect explained

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Richard F. Strand