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Mumo
The Mumo (also known as Muman, previously also called Madugal kaffirs) are a Nuristani tribe in Afghanistan living primarily in the Bashgal Valley, centered in the village of Bagalgrom.''My heartrendingly tragic story''. By Muhammad Abdullah Khan Azar, Muhammad Abdullah Khan, Alberto M. Cacopardo, Ruth Laila Schmidt, Georg Morgenstierne, Knut Kristiansen Translated by Georg Morgenstierne, Knut Kristiansen. Novus, 2006. , . Pg 3/ref> Their language is Mumviri Mumviri is a dialect of the Nuristani Kamkata-vari 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 ..., a dialect of the Kamkata-vari language. References {{reflist Nuristani people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumviri
Mumviri is a dialect of the Nuristani Kamkata-vari 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 Landai Sin Valley, or the Bashgal Valley, is a geographical feature of Nuristan Province, eastern Afghanistan, formed by the Landai Sin River which empties into the Kunar River (also called the Chitral River) at Barikot, Kamdesh District in Nu .... References * The Mumo. Retrieved July 10, 2006, from ''Richard F. Strand: Nuristan, Hidden Land of the Hindu-Kush' External links Nuristan: Hidden Land of the Hindu Kush-Includes a lexicon of Kamviri and more information. Languages of Afghanistan Languages of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Nuristani languages {{ie-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuristanis
The Nuristanis, formerly known as Kafiristanis, are an ethnic group native to the Nuristan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and Chitral District of northwestern Pakistan. Their languages comprise the Nuristani branch of Indo-Iranian languages. The Nuristanis reside mainly in the northeast of Afghanistan and northwest of Pakistan; between the Pashtun tribes of Kunar, Kalash in Pakistan's Chitral, and Tajiks of Badakhshan in the north. In the mid-1890s, after the establishment of the Durand Line when Afghanistan reached an agreement on various frontier areas to the British Empire for period of time, Emir Abdur Rahman Khan conducted a military campaign in Kafiristan and followed up his conquest with forced conversion of the Kafirs to Islam; the region thenceforth being known as ''Nuristan'', the "Land of Light". Before their conversion, the Nuristanis practiced a form of ancient Hinduism. Non-Muslim religious practices endure in Nuristan today to some degree as folk customs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagalgrom
Bagalgrom (also known as Mumar) is a village in the Bashgal Valley of Nuristan, Afghanistan. Bagalgrom is the primary village of the Mumo tribe.''My heartrendingly tragic story''. By Muhammad Abdullah Khan Azar, Muhammad Abdullah Khan, Alberto M. Cacopardo, Ruth Laila Schmidt, Georg Morgenstierne, Knut Kristiansen Translated by Georg Morgenstierne, Knut Kristiansen. Novus, 2006. , . Pg 3/ref> Their language is Mumviri Mumviri is a dialect of the Nuristani Kamkata-vari 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 ..., a dialect of the Kamkata-viri language. The 1911 ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' referred to Bagalgrom as "chief village of the Madugal kaffirs" References Populated places in Nuristan Province {{Nuristan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamkata-viri
Kamkata-vari (') is the largest Nuristani language. It contains the main dialects Kata-vari, Kamviri and Mumviri. Kata-vari and Kamviri are sometimes erroneously reckoned as two separate languages, but according to linguist Richard Strand they form one language. The Kamkata-vari language is spoken by 40,000–60,000 people, from the Kata, Kom, Mumo, Kshto and some smaller Black-Robed tribes in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. There are dialectal differences of the Kamkata-vari speakers of Pakistan. The most used alternative names for the language are ''Kati'' or ''Bashgali''. Classification It belongs to the Indo-European language family and is in the Nuristani group of the Indo-Iranian branch. Dialects There are four main dialects: Eastern Kata-vari, Western Kata-vari, Kamviri and Mumviri. The last two are sometimes erroneously defined as separate languages. Eastern Kata-vari and Kamviri are commonly both referred to as ''Shekhani'' in Chitral. Status Literacy rates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bashgal Valley
The Landai Sin Valley, or the Bashgal Valley, is a geographical feature of Nuristan Province, eastern Afghanistan, formed by the Landai Sin River which empties into the Kunar River (also called the Chitral River) at Barikot, Kamdesh District in Nuristan, Afghanistan. The largest town in the valley is Kamdesh. The lower Bashgal Valley is inhabited by the Kom people. History During the period of British influence in the 19th century, the Landai Sin Valley was considered part of Chitral State. In the 1980s, Salafist cleric Mawlawi Afzal founded the Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan The Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan ( fa, دولت انقلابی اسلامی افغانستان) was a small Salafist Islamic state located in the north of Bashgal Valley, Nuristan Province. It was founded by Mawlawi Afzal during the n ... in Landai Sin, which established consulates in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.*Robert D. Crews, Amin Tarzi. ''The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |