Kamkata-vari

E235941

Kamkata-vari is an Indo-Iranian (Nuristani) language spoken primarily in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, encompassing several closely related dialects including Kamviri.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kamkata-vari canonical 5
Kata-vari 5
Eastern Kata-vari 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Iranian language
Nuristani language
language
country Afghanistan
Pakistan
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari

Kati
hasDialect Kamviri
Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari

Mumviri
hasEthnolinguisticGroup Kam people
Kata people
hasLinguisticFeature SOV basic word order
contrastive vowel length
rich case system
hasMorphologicalType fusional
synthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated and unaspirated stops
series of retroflex consonants
influencedBy Dari Persian
linked to: Persian language

Pashto
linked to: Pashto language
ISO639-3 xvi
isPartOf Nuristani linguistic area
linked to: Nuristani languages
languageBranch Indo-Iranian
languageFamily Indo-European
languageSubbranch Nuristani
linked to: Nuristani languages
linguisticClassificationSource Nuristani branch proposed by Georg Morgenstierne
neighboringLanguage Ashkun
Khowar
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Prasun
Waigali
partOf Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family
region Chitral District
Nuristan
linked to: Nuristan Province
spokenBy Kam community
Kata community
Nuristani communities
spokenIn Afghanistan
Pakistan
subclassOf Indo-Iranian languages
Nuristani languages
usedAs oral language in daily communication
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

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

Kamviri language subfamily Kamkata-vari
Tregami neighboringLanguage Kamkata-vari
Kati language hasDialect Eastern Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari
Kati language hasDialect Western Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari
Kati language alternativeName Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari
Kamkata-vari hasDialect Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari
Kamkata-vari hasAlternativeName Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari
Bashgal Valley hasLanguage Kamkata-vari
Shekhani (Kamkata-vari) language hasDialect Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari
Kamkata-vari group languageVarieties Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari