Yidgha

E228136
Eastern Iranian language Indo-European language Indo-Iranian language Iranian language

Yidgha is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in parts of northern Pakistan, closely related to the Munji language and noted for its conservative phonological features.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Yidgha canonical 7
Munji–Yidgha 1
Yidga 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language ⓘ
Indo-European language ⓘ
Indo-Iranian language ⓘ
Iranian language ⓘ
belongsToMacroArea Hindu Kush–Pamir region ⓘ
surface form: Hindukush–Pamir region

South Asia ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Munji language ⓘ
country Pakistan ⓘ
endangeredStatus definitely endangered ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Yidgha ⓘ
surface form: Yidga

Yidgha ⓘ
surface form: Yidgha-viri

Yudga ⓘ
Yudgha ⓘ
hasApproximateSpeakers several thousand ⓘ
hasContactLanguage Khowar ⓘ
Pashto language ⓘ
surface form: Pashto

Urdu language ⓘ
surface form: Urdu
hasGrammaticalCategory grammatical case present ⓘ
grammatical gender absent ⓘ
past vs non-past tense distinction ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature conservative phonology ⓘ
retention of archaic Eastern Iranian features ⓘ
hasTypologicalFeature head-final syntax ⓘ
postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Munji language ⓘ
iso639-3 ydg ⓘ
languageBranch Yidgha self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Munji–Yidgha
languageFamily Iranian ⓘ
languageStatus vulnerable ⓘ
linguisticFeature SOV basic word order ⓘ
case marking on nouns ⓘ
complex consonant system ⓘ
contrastive vowel length ⓘ
morphologicalType fusional ⓘ
suffixing ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Khowar ⓘ
Pashto language ⓘ
surface form: Pashto

Wakhi ⓘ
region northern Pakistan ⓘ
researchedBy Georg Morgenstierne ⓘ
K. C. R. Chaudhri ⓘ
scriptVariant Perso-Arabic script ⓘ
spokenBy Yidgha people ⓘ
spokenIn Chitral District ⓘ
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ⓘ
subfamily Eastern Iranian ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eastern Iranian languages → hasMember → Yidgha ⓘ
Eastern Iranian languages → hasLivingLanguage → Yidgha ⓘ
Southeastern Iranian languages → hasNotableLanguage → Yidgha ⓘ
Yidgha → languageBranch → Yidgha self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Munji–Yidgha
Yidgha → hasAlternativeName → Yidgha ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yidgha-viri
Yidgha → hasAlternativeName → Yidgha ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yidga
Proto-Eastern Iranian → hasDescendant → Yidgha ⓘ
Munji → closelyRelatedTo → Yidgha ⓘ
Northeastern Iranian languages → hasMemberLanguage → Yidgha ⓘ
Northeastern Iranian languages → hasLivingLanguage → Yidgha ⓘ