Kamviri language

E43948

The Kamviri language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily by the Kam people in parts of eastern Afghanistan and neighboring regions of Pakistan.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Kamviri language canonical 7
Kamkata-vari language 3
Kamviri dialect continuum 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nuristani language
language
alternativeName Kati (Kamviri variety)
Sanglechi
surface form: Kâmviri
closelyRelatedTo Kamviri language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kata-vari language

Shekhani (Kamkata-vari) language
countryCode AF
PK
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Kam people
family Nuristani languages
surface form: Nuristani
glottocode kamv1243
hasDialect Bashgal dialect
Kamdesh dialect
iso639-3 xvi
languageBranch Indo-Iranian languages
surface form: Indo-Iranian
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European
languageGroup Kamkata-vari group
linguisticFeature case marking on nouns
complex verbal morphology
grammatical gender
rich consonant inventory
nativeName Ormur
surface form: Kamviri
neighboringLanguage Ashkun language
Persian language
surface form: Dari Persian

Kati language
Pashto language
Prasuni language
Waigali language
primaryCountry Afghanistan
region Chitral District
Kunar Province
Eastern Afghanistan
surface form: eastern Afghanistan
scriptDirection right-to-left
secondaryCountry Pakistan
spokenBy Kam people
Kamviri people
spokenIn Bashgal Valley
Kamdesh area
Nuristan Province
surface form: Nuristan region

parts of Chitral in Pakistan
status minority language
subfamily Kamkata-vari
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

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

Nuristani languages hasMember Kamviri language
Nuristani languages hasMember Kamviri language
this entity surface form: Waigali language
Prasun language relatedTo Kamviri language
Kamviri language closelyRelatedTo Kamviri language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kata-vari language
Kati language alternativeName Kamviri language
this entity surface form: Kamkata-vari language
Bashgal dialect partOf Kamviri language
this entity surface form: Kamviri dialect continuum
Bashgal dialect relatedTo Kamviri language
Shekhani (Kamkata-vari) language subclassOf Kamviri language
this entity surface form: Kamkata-vari language
Shekhani (Kamkata-vari) language closelyRelatedTo Kamviri language
this entity surface form: Kamkata-vari language
Kam people hasLanguage Kamviri language
Kamviri people language Kamviri language