Tregami

E228160

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
linked to: Nuristan Province
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
severely endangered
ethnicity Tregami
family Nuristani
linked to: Nuristani languages
hasAlternativeName Gambiri
Gambiri Tregami
linked to: Gambiri Kati

Tregami-vari
linked to: Tregami
hasContactInfluenceFrom Pashayi
linked to: Pashai

Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

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 languages
Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticArea Hindu Kush
neighboringLanguage Kamkata-vari
Pashayi
linked to: Pashai

Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

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
linked to: Eastern Afghanistan
spokenInValley Gawardesh Valley
Tregam Valley
subfamily Southern Nuristani
linked to: Nuristani languages
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 Kati
linked to: Tregami
Tregami ethnicity Tregami
Tregami hasAlternativeName Tregami-vari
linked to: Tregami