Kamviri dialect

Kamviri (کامويري) is a dialect of the Kamkata-vari 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.

Kamviri
کامويري
Native toAfghanistan, Pakistan
RegionBashgal Valley, and Southern Chitral District, Langorbat, Badrugal and the Urtsun Valley
Native speakers
20,000 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3xvi
Glottologkamv1242[2]
Linguasphere58-ACB-ad

Vocabulary

Pronouns:

1sg. õć (nominative), ĩa (accusative), ĩ (genitive)

1pl. imo (nominative/genitive), imoa (accusative)

2sg. tū (nominative), tua (accusative), tu (genitive)

2pl. šo (nominative/genitive), šoa (accusative)

Numbers:

1: ev

2: dū

3: tre

4: što

5: puc

6: ṣu

7: sut

8: uṣṭ

9: nu

10: duć

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References
  1. Kamviri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kamviri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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


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