Yidgha language
Yidgha | |
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یدغا | |
Native to | Chitral District, Pakistan |
Ethnicity | Yidgha |
Native speakers | 6,000 (2020)[1] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ydg |
Glottolog | yidg1240 |
ELP | Yidgha |
Linguasphere | 58-ABD-bb |
The Yidgha language (یدغا زڤون) is an
The Garam Chashma area became important during the
Name
According to Georg Morgenstierne (1931), the name Yidgha probably derives from *(h)ind(a,i)-ka-, likely referring to the part of the Munji tribe that settled on the "Indian" or "Indo-Aryan" side near the Lotkoh Valley. Ľubomír Novák (2013) revises the reconstruction as *hindū̆-ka-ka-, with the same assumption.
Study
The Yidgha language has not been given serious study by linguists, except that it is mentioned by Georg Morgenstierne (1926), Kendall Decker (1992) and Badshah Munir Bukhari (2005). A 280-page joint description of Yidgha and Munji (descriptive and historical phonetics and grammar, glossary with etymologies where possible) is given by Morgenstierne (1938).
Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne wrote that Chitral is the area of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world.[1] Although
See also
References
- ^ Yidgha at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
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Further reading
- Decker, Kendall D. (1992). Languages of Chitral. ISBN 969-8023-15-1.
- Novák, Ľubomír (2013). Problem of Archaism and Innovation in the Eastern Iranian Languages. Charles University. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
- Morgenstierne, Georg (1926) Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan. ISBN 0-923891-09-9
- Morgenstierne, Georg (1931) The Name Munjān and Some Other Names of Places and Peoples in the Hindu Kush. Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London.
- Morgenstierne, Georg (1938) Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages II (Yidgha-Munji, Sanglechi-Ishkashmi and Wakhi). Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie B: XXXV. Oslo.
- Decker, Kendall D. (1992). Languages of Chitral (Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan, 5). National Institute of Pakistani Studies, 257 pp. ISBN 969-8023-15-1.