Tregami

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Tregami is a Nuristani language spoken by a small community in eastern Afghanistan’s remote valleys.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Tregami canonical 3
Tregami Kati 1
Tregami-vari 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nuristani language
language
classificationStatus well-established as Nuristani
country Afghanistan
countrySubdivision Nuristan Province
surface form: Nuristan
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
severely endangered
ethnicity Tregami self-link
family Nuristani languages
surface form: Nuristani
hasAlternativeName Gambiri
Gambiri Kati
surface form: Gambiri Tregami

Tregami
surface form: Tregami-vari
hasContactInfluenceFrom Pashai
surface form: Pashayi

Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Persian
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive studies by Nuristani specialists
hasMorphologicalFeature case-marking on nouns
verbal inflection for tense-aspect-mood
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasStandardizedOrthography no
hasSyntacticFeature basic SOV word order
isMinorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
iso639-3 trm
isOralTraditionDominant yes
isUsedInEducation rarely
isUsedInMedia no or minimal use
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticArea Hindu Kush
neighboringLanguage Kamkata-vari
Pashai
surface form: Pashayi

Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Waigali
numberOfSpeakersEstimate 1000
1000–2000
region Nuristan Province
riskFactor geographic isolation
language shift to Pashto
small speaker population
spokenBy Tregami people
spokenIn Afghanistan
spokenInRegion Eastern Afghanistan
surface form: eastern Afghanistan
spokenInValley Gawardesh Valley
Tregam Valley
subfamily Nuristani languages
surface form: Southern Nuristani
writingSystem Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Nuristani people language Tregami
Tregami language hasAlternativeName Tregami
this entity surface form: Tregami Kati
Tregami ethnicity Tregami self-link
Tregami hasAlternativeName Tregami
this entity surface form: Tregami-vari