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