Mumviri is a dialect of the Nuristani

Kamkata-vari language 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 ...

, spoken by perhaps 1,500 of the Mumo people of Afghanistan. There are only slight differences to the Kata-vari, Mumviri has

Kamviri Kamviri () is a dialect of the Kamkata-vari language spoken by 5,000 to 10,000 of the Kom people of Afghanistan and Pakistan. There are slight dialectal differences of the Kamviri speakers of Pakistan. The most used alternative names are ''Kati' ...

phonetic features. The most used alternative name is ''Bashgali'', which derive from

Khowar Khowar () or Chitrali, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in Chitral and surrounding areas in Pakistan. Khowar is the lingua franca of Chitral, and it is also spoken in the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts of Gilgit-Baltistan, as we ...

. 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