Tregami language
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Tregami, Trigami or Gambiri is a language
Language
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 spoken by the Tregami people in the villages of Gambir and Katar in the Watapur District of Kunar Province in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
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Tregami belongs to the Indo-European
Indo-European languages
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 language family
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, and is on the Nuristani
Nuristani languages
The Nuristani languages are one of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, alongside the much larger Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups. They are spoken primarily in eastern Afghanistan...

 group of the Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian languages
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 estimates its speakers at 1,000 (1994). Its speakers are overwhelmingly Muslim
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, and literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as a first language
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, and between 5% to 15% for people who have it as a second language
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It has a lexical similarity of approximately 76% to 80% with the Kalasha-ala language
Kalasha-ala language
Waigali or Waigeli is a language spoken by the Kalasha of the Nuristan Province in a few villages in the central part of the Kunar Province of Afghanistan. The native name is Kalasa-Alâ or simply Kalasa...

spoken in the adjacent Waygal Valley to the west and in Ghaziabad District to the east.
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