Kamviri (کامويري) 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, Kamozi, Shekhani or Bashgali.
Kamviri | |
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کامويري | |
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Native to | Afghanistan, Pakistan |
Region | Bashgal Valley, and Southern Chitral District, Langorbat, Badrugal and the Urtsun Valley |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2011)[1] |
Language family | Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xvi |
Glottolog | kamv1242 |
Linguasphere | 58-ACB-ad |
The inventory as described by Richard Strand.[2] In addition, there is stress.
The neutral articulatory posture, as in the reduced vowel /a/, consists of the tip of the tongue behind the lower teeth and a raised tongue root is linked with a raised larynx, producing a characteristic pitch for unstressed vowels of about an octave above the pitch of a relaxed larynx.
Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Retroflex | Post- Alveolar |
Velar | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | k | |
voiced | b | d | ɖ | ɡ | ||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʂ | t͡ʃ | ||
voiced | d͡z | d͡ʐ | d͡ʒ | |||
Fricative | voiceless | (f) | s | ʂ | ʃ | (x) |
voiced | v | z | ʐ | ʒ | ɣ | |
Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | ||
Tap | ɾ | (ɽ) | ||||
Approximant | lateral | l | ||||
central | ɻ | j |
One suffix /ti/ voices to [di] for most speakers.
[ʈɭ, ɖɭ] are phonetic affricates.
Nasals voice a following obstruent.
Laminal consonants change a following /a/ from [ɨ] to [i].
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i y | (ɨ ⟨a⟩) | u |
Mid | e | ə ⟨a⟩ | o |
Low | a ⟨â⟩ | (ɔ) |
⟨a⟩ is [ː] after another vowel, [i] after a laminal consonant and after /ik, ek, iɡ, eɡ/. For some speakers, it is [u] after /uk, yk, uɡ, yɡ/. Otherwise it is [ə] or [ɨ].
Pronouns:
1sg. õć (nominative), ĩa (accusative), ĩ (genitive)
1pl. imo (nominative/genitive), imoa (accusative)
2sg. tū (nominative), tua (accusative), tu (genitive)
2pl. šo (nominative/genitive), šoa (accusative)
Numbers:
1: ev
2: dū
3: tre
4: što
5: puc
6: ṣu
7: sut
8: uṣṭ
9: nu
10: duć
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