Wama Valley

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Wama Valley is a remote valley in eastern Afghanistan known as one of the primary homelands of the Nuristani-speaking Ashkun people.

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Label Occurrences
Wama Valley canonical 1

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Statements (25)

Predicate Object
instanceOf valley
characteristic mountainous
remote
country Afghanistan
ethnolinguisticRegionFor Nuristani-speaking communities
hasEthnicGroup Nuristani people
surface form: Nuristani peoples
hasMinorityLanguage Dari
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
hasSettlementPattern scattered villages
inhabitedBy Ashkun people
knownFor Nuristani-speaking population
being a primary homeland of the Ashkun people
locatedIn Eastern Afghanistan
surface form: eastern Afghanistan
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Nuristan Province
locatedInContinent Asia
locatedInMountainRange Hindu Kush
surface form: Hindu Kush mountains
locatedInRegion Nuristan Province
surface form: Nuristan
majorLanguageFamily Nuristani languages
majorLanguageSpoken Ashkun language
partOf Ashkun traditional territory
Hindu Kush
primaryHomelandOf Ashkun people
regionType rural area
terrainFeature narrow river valley
steep valleys

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ashkun language spokenInValley Wama Valley