Kata-vari language

E801742

The Kata-vari language is a Nuristani language spoken primarily in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan by the Kati (Kata) people.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kamkata-vari language 1
Kata-vari language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Iranian language
Nuristani language
language
contactLanguage Dari
Khowar
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language
country Afghanistan
Pakistan
ethnolinguisticGroup Nuristani peoples
linked to: Nuristani people
hasAlternativeName Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari

Kata-viri
Kati language
hasCaseSystem nominal case marking
hasDialect Eastern Kata-vari
linked to: Kamkata-vari

Western Kata-vari
hasGenderSystem grammatical gender
hasMorphologyType fusional
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive retroflex consonants
tonal or pitch-accent-like distinctions (reported)
hasWordOrder SOV
isEndangered true
ISO639-3 bsh
languageBranch Indo-Iranian languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
languageSubbranch Nuristani languages
linguisticStatus minority language
under-described language
neighboringLanguage Ashkun language
Kamkata-vari language
linked to: Kamviri language

Khowar
Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Waigali language
region Chitral District
Nuristan
linked to: Nuristan Province
script Arabic script
Perso-Arabic script
spokenBy Kata people
Kati people
spokenIn Afghanistan
Pakistan
spokenInValley Bashgal Valley
Lutkuh Valley
subfamilyOf Nuristani languages

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Kati language alternativeName Kata-vari language
Kam community language Kamkata-vari language
linked to: Kata-vari language