Mumviri dialect

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
Native toAfghanistan
Regionbasin of eastern Nuristan
Native speakers
(perhaps 1,500 cited 1998)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologmumv1239
Linguasphere58-ACB-ac

Mumviri is spoken in the Mangul, Sasku and Gabalgrom in the Bashgal Valley.

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