Waigali (language)

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Waigali (ویگلی) or Kalasha-ala (کالاشا-الا)

Spoken in

Afghanistan ( Nuristan Province )
speaker 12,000 (2011)
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639-3

wbk

Waigali ( Persian : ویگلی) or Kalasha-ala (کالاشا-الا) is a Nuristani language spoken by about 12,000 people in the Waigal Valley of the Hindu Kush in the Afghan province of Nuristan . The native

Name is Kalaṣa-alâ 'Kalasha language'. "Waigali" refers to the dialect of the Väy in the upper part of the Waigal valley, which is concentrated in the town of Waigal and differs from the dialect of the Čima-Nišei who live in the lower valley. The word "Kalasha" is the native name for all speakers of the southern Nuristani languages . Kalaṣa-alâ belongs to the Indo-European language family and belongs to the southern Nuristani group of the Indo-Iranian branch. The Perso-Arabic script and rarely the Latin script are used.

Confusion with Chitral Kalasha

It shares its name with Kalaṣa-mun, which is spoken in the southern Chitral district of Pakistan, but the two languages ​​belong to different branches of Indo-Iranian . Waigali speakers are sometimes called "Red Kalashes" while the Indo-Aryan Kalashas in Pakistan are called "Black Kalashes". According to linguist Richard Strand, the Kalash of Chitral apparently took the name of the Nuristani Kalash, who at an unknown point in time had expanded her influence to the region of southern Chitral. Although both languages ​​have some similarities, they have followed different paths for over 2000 years.

See also

credentials

  1. ↑ a b Waigali - Ethnologue. Accessed March 31, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ a b Richard Strand's Nuristân Site: Lexicons of Kâmviri, Khowar, and other Hindu-Kush Languages. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Information on Nuristan - Richard Strand's Nuristân Site. Accessed March 31, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Glottolog 4.1 - Waigali. Accessed March 31, 2020 .
  5. ^ Acta orientalia: ediderunt societates orientales Batava, Danica, Norvegica . EJ Brill., 2006 ( google.de [accessed on March 31, 2020]).