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=Indic

Tregami, Trigami or Gambiri is a language spoken by the Tregami people in the villages of Gambir and Katar in the Nurestan Province of Afghanistan.

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 overwhelmingly Muslim, and literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as a first language, and between 5% to 15% for people who have it as a second 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] .