Tregami language

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Tregami
Spoken in: Afghanistan 
Region: Nurestan Province
Total speakers: 1,000 (1994)
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Nuristani
   Tregami 
Official status
Official language in: none
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: none
ISO 639-3: trm
Indic script
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Tregami, Trigami or Gambiri is a language spoken by the Tregami people in the villages of Gambir and Katar in the Nurestan Province of Afghanistan.

Tregami belongs to the Indo-European language family, and is on the Nuristani group of the Indo-Iranian branch.

Ethnologue estimates its speakers at 1,000 (1994). Its speakers are overwhelmingly Muslim, and literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as a first language, and between 5% to 15% for people who have it as a second language.

It has a lexical similarity of approximately 76% to 80% with the Kalasha-ala language.

[edit] References

  • The Tregâmi. Retrieved July 04, 2006, from Richard F. Strand: Nuristan, Hidden Land of the Hindu-Kush [1].
  • Tregami. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.
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