Yidgha

E228136

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.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Yidgha canonical 7
Munji–Yidgha 1
Yidga 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
belongsToMacroArea Hindukush–Pamir region
South Asia
closelyRelatedTo Munji language
country Pakistan
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
hasAlternativeName Yidga
linked to: Yidgha

Yidgha-viri
linked to: Yidgha

Yudga
Yudgha
hasApproximateSpeakers several thousand
hasContactLanguage Khowar
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
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 Munji–Yidgha
linked to: 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
linked to: Pashto language

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

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