Waigali ( Kalaṣa-alâ ), also known as Nuristani Kalasha , is a language spoken by about 10,000 Nuristani people of the Waigal Valley in the Nuristan Province of Afghanistan. The native name is Kalaṣa-alâ 'Kalasha-language'. "Waigali" refers to the dialect of the Väi people of the upper part of the Waigal Valley, centered on the town of Waigal , which is distinct from the dialect of the Čima-Nišei people who inhabit the lower valley. The word 'Kalasha' is the native ethnonym for all the speakers of the southern Nuristani languages .
6-545: Waygal District ( Waigali : Vägal , Pashto : وایگل ولسوالۍ , Persian : ولسوالی وایگل ) is a district of Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan . It has nine major villages in the valley as following by area and population, Waygal, Zanchgal, Nishigram, Ameshdesh, Akun, Kegal, Muldesh, Jamach, and Want. The local Kalasha people speak the Waigali language , a Nuristani language . Pashto and Dari are also widely understood and used as official languages. According to
12-504: Is closely related to Zemiaki and to Tregami , the lexical similarity with the latter being approximately 76% to 80%. It shares its name with Kalaṣa-mun , spoken in Pakistan's southern Chitral District , but the two languages belong to different branches of Indo-Iranian. Waigali speakers are sometimes called "Red Kalasha", while the speakers of the language in Pakistan are called “Black Kalasha.” According to linguist Richard Strand
18-524: The Köppen climate classification system, Waygal has a humid continental climate ( Dsb ) with warm summers and cold, snowy winters. The annual average temperature in Waygal is 5.0 °C, while the annual precipitation averages 1,096 mm. September is the driest month with 47 mm of precipitation, while March, the wettest month, has an average precipitation of 161 mm. July is the hottest month of
24-880: The Kalasha of Chitral apparently adopted the name of the Nuristani Kalasha, who at some unknown time had extended their influence into the region of southern Chitral. The name Kalasha-ala comes from Kalaṣa [kalaˈʂa] , a term denoting the Kalash people , which also covers the distantly related Indo-Aryan Kalasha language , hence the language is also called "Nuristani Kalasha" or "Waigali". The latter name comes from Vägal [væˈɡal] < Vâigal [vaːi̯ˈɡal] , from Vä [ˈvæ] < Vâi [ˈvaːi̯] "Vai" and gal [ˈɡal] "valley". According to linguist Richard Strand , Kalaṣa-alâ contains several dialects spoken among
30-751: The Väi, Vai, or Vä peoples, the Čima-Nišei people, and the Vântä people. Within the Väi, the Väi-alâ, Ameš-alâ, and Ẓönči-alâ subdialects are spoken. Among the Čima-Nišei, the Nišei-alâ and Čimi-alâ subdialects are spoken. The exact dialect of the Vântä is unclear, but is most probably Nišei-alâ. For this article, most cited forms will be based on the Nišei dialect (Nišei-alâ). Alveolar Palatal Symbols in brackets are foreign sounds. This Indo-European languages -related article
36-525: The year with an average temperature of 19.4 °C. The coldest month January has an average temperature of -8.3 °C. This Nuristan Province , Afghanistan location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kalasha-ala Kalaṣa-alâ belongs to the Indo-European language family , and is in the southern Nuristani group of the Indo-Iranian branch. It
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