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Mumviri
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| Mumviri | ||||
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| Spoken in: | Afghanistan | |||
| Region: | basin of eastern Nuristan | |||
| Total speakers: | 1,500 (Richard F. Strand) | |||
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Nuristani Kamkata-viri Mumviri |
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| Official status | ||||
| Official language of: | none | |||
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |||
| ISO 639-2: | none | |||
| ISO 639-3: | — | |||
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Mumviri is a dialect of the Kamkata-viri 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.
- The Mumo. Retrieved July 10, 2006, from Richard F. Strand: Nuristan, Hidden Land of the Hindu-Kush [1].
- Nuristan: Hidden Land of the Hindu Kush -Includes a lexicon of Kamviri and more information.
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