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Mumviri dialect

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Native to
  
Afghanistan

Glottolog
  
mumv1239

Native speakers
  
perhaps 1,500 (1998)

Linguasphere
  
58-ACB-ac

Region
  
basin of eastern Nuristan

Language family
  
Indo-European Indo-Iranian Nuristani Kamkata-viri Mumviri

Mumviri is a dialect of the Kamkata-viri Nuristani 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.

References

Mumviri dialect Wikipedia