Yudga

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Yudga is an alternative name for Yidgha, an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in Pakistan’s Chitral region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yudga canonical 2

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
language
alternativeNameOf Yidgha
belongsToBranch Eastern Iranian branch
closelyRelatedTo Munji language
country Pakistan
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
geographicDistribution northern Pakistan
hasAlternativeName Yudga
Yudgha
Yudgha-Yudga
linked to: Yudgha
hasContactWith Khowar language
linked to: Khowar

Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
hasEndangermentCause language shift to Khowar
language shift to Urdu
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Khowar language
linked to: Khowar

Persian
linked to: Persian language
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration
retroflex consonants
hasResearchField Iranian linguistics
Pamiri linguistics
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Munji language
iso639-3Code ydg
languageFamily Eastern Iranian
linguisticClassification Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Iranian > Eastern Iranian > Pamiri > Yidgha
numberOfSpeakersApproximate several thousand
partOf Pamiri languages
linked to: Pamir languages
primaryUse oral communication
rarelyUsedInDomain formal education
official administration
region Chitral region
linked to: Chitral District
script Arabic script
spokenByMinorityIn Chitral town
linked to: Chitral District
spokenIn Chitral District
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Lutkuh Valley
Pakistan
subclassOf Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
usedBy Yidgha ethnic group
linked to: Yidgha people
usedInDomain home and community
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Perso-Arabic script

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

Yidgha hasAlternativeName Yudga
Yidgha hasAlternativeName Yudga
subject linked to: Yudga