- Tregami language
Infobox Language
name= Tregami
familycolor= Indo-European
states=Afghanistan
region=Nurestan Province
speakers= 1,000 (1994)
fam2=Indo-Iranian
fam3=Nuristani
nation="none"
iso1="none"|iso2="none"|iso3= trm|notice=IndicTregami, Trigami or Gambiri is a
language spoken by the Tregami people in the villages of Gambir and Katar in theNurestan Province ofAfghanistan .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 overwhelminglyMuslim , and literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as afirst language , and between 5% to 15% for people who have it as asecond 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" [http://users.sedona.net/~strand/Nuristani/Tregami/tregami.html] .
* Tregami. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from "Ethnologue : Languages of the World", fifteenth edition. SIL International. [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=trm Online version] .
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