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The Yidgha language (یدغا زڤون) is an Eastern Iranian language of the Pamir group spoken in the upper Lotkoh Valley (Tehsil Lotkoh) of Chitral in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Yidgha is similar to the Munji language spoken on the Afghan side of the border.

Yidgha
یدغا
Native to	Chitral District, Pakistan
Ethnicity	Yidgha
Native speakers	6,200 (2000)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern Munji–Yidgha? Yidgha
Writing system	Arabic script (Nastaʿlīq)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ydg
Glottolog	yidg1240
ELP	Yidgha
Linguasphere	58-ABD-bb

The Garam Chashma area became important during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan because the Soviets were unable to stop the flow of arms and men back and forth across the Dorah Pass that separates Chitral from Badakshan in Afghanistan. Almost the entire Munji-speaking population of Afghanistan fled across the border to Chitral during the War in Afghanistan.

Study

The Yidgha language has not been given serious study by linguists, except that it is mentioned by Georg Morgenstierne (1926), Kendall Decker (1992) and Badshah Munir Bukhari (2005). A 280-page joint description of Yidgha and Munji (descriptive and historical phonetics and grammar, glossary with etymologies where possible) is given by Morgenstierne (1938).

Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world. Although Khowar is the predominant language of Chitral, more than ten other languages are spoken here. These include Kalasha-mun, Palula, Dameli, Gawar-Bati, Nuristani, Yidgha, Burushaski, Wakhi, Kyrgyz, the Madaglashti dialect of Persian, and Pashto. Since many of these languages have no written form, letters are usually written in Urdu.

See also

• Languages of Pakistan

References

Further reading

• Decker, Kendall D. (1992) Languages of Chitral ISBN 969-8023-15-1 http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=32850
• Morgenstierne, Georg (1926) Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan. Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie C I-2. Oslo. ISBN 0-923891-09-9
• Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages II (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi). Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie B: XXXV. Oslo.
• Decker, Kendall D. (1992). Languages of Chitral (Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 5). National Institute of Pakistani Studies, 257 pp. ISBN 969-8023-15-1.

На других языках

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[de] Yidgha

Yidgha (.mw-parser-output .Arab a,.mw-parser-output a bdi.Arab{text-decoration:none!important}.mw-parser-output .Arab{font-size:120%}یدغہ) ist eine ostiranische Sprache,[1][2] die im oberen Lotkoh-Tal von Chitral in der pakistanischen Provinz Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gesprochen wird.[1] Yidgha ist eng mit Munji verwandt, die auf der afghanischen Seite der Grenze gesprochen wird. Es wird die persische Schrift verwendet.[2]

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- [en] Yidgha language

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[ru] Йидга (язык)

Йидга́, также известен как йудга́, мунджива́р, луткухива́р — язык малочисленного народа йидга (часть мунджанцев). Является одним из памирских языков, и наиболее близок к мунджанскому языку (от 56 до 80 % совпадений), из-за чего эти два языка большинство лингвистов называют «йидга-мунджанским языком». Считается, что язык йидга и мунджанский являются продолжением древнего, ныне мертвого бактрийского языка.

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