Yidgha (یدغہ)

Yidgha is a member of the Eastern Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian languages. It is spoken by about 6,200 people in northern Pakistan, particularly in the upper Lotkoh Valley in the Upper Chitral District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Most speakers of Yidgha also speak Khowar and Urdu, and some are shifting away from Yidgha.

Yidgha is also known as Yadgha, Yidga, Yudga, Yudgha, Lotkohiwar, Lutkuhwar or Munji-war. It is closely related to Munji, which is spoken in Afghanistan, and the Yidgha people migrated from the Minjan valley in Afghanistan about 500 years ago.

There is no official way to write Yidgha, although some people use the Arabic script for Urdu with some extra letters.

Arabic alphabet for Yidgha

Download an alphabet chart for Yidgha (Excel)

Details provided by Michael Peter Füstumum

Hear a sample recording in Yidgha

Source:https://fli-online.org/site/multimedia-6/

Sample videos in Yidgha

Links

Information about Yidgha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yidgha_language
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Мунджанский_язык
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ydg
https://zabanha.af/languages/munji
https://zabanha.af/sites/default/files/print-resources/munji/Munji%20Phonological%20Analysis.pdf

Iranian languages

Avestan,Bactrian Baluchi,Bartangi,Dari,Gilaki,Hazaragi,Ishkashimi,Judeo-Persian,Juhuri,Khufi,Kumzari,Kurdish,Luri,Mazandarani,Munji,Ossetian,Ormuri,Oroshor,Persian,Parthian,Pashto,Rushani,Sanglechi,Sarikoli,Shabaki,Shughni,Tajik,Talysh,Tat,Wakhi,Wanetsi,Yaghnobi,Yazghulami,Yidgha,Zazaki

Languages written with the Arabic script

Adamaua Fulfulde,Aer,Afrikaans,Arabic (Algerian),Arabic (Bedawi),Arabic (Chadian),Arabic (Egyptian),Arabic (Gulf),Arabic (Hassaniya),Arabic (Hejazi),Arabic (Lebanese),Arabic (Libyan),Arabic (Modern Standard),Arabic (Moroccan),Arabic (Najdi),Arabic (Sudanese),Arabic (Syrian),Arabic (Tunisian),Arwi,Äynu,Azeri,Balanta-Ganja,Balti,Baluchi,Beja,Belarusian,Bosnian,Brahui,Chagatai,Chechen,Chittagonian,Comorian,Crimean Tatar,Dameli,Dargwa,Dari,Dhatki,Dogri,Domari,Gawar Bati,Gawri,Gilaki,Hausa,Hazaragi,Hindko,Humburi Senni,Indus Kohistani,Kabyle,Kalkoti,Karachay-Balkar,Karakalpak,Kashmiri,Kazakh,Khowar,Khorasani Turkic,Khwarezmian,Konkani,Kumzari,Kurdish,Kyrgyz,Lezgi,Lop,Luri,Maasina Fulfulde,Maba,Maguindanao,Malay,Malay (Terengganu),Mandinka,Marwari,Mazandarani,Mogholi,Morisco,Mozarabic,Munji,Noakhailla,Nubi,Ormuri,Palula,Parkari Koli,Pashto,Persian/Farsi,Punjabi,Qashqai,Rajasthani,Rohingya,Salar,Saraiki,Sawi,Serer,Shabaki,Shina,Shughni,Sindhi,Somali,Soninke,Tatar,Tausūg,Tawallammat Tamajaq,Tayart Tamajeq,Ternate,Torwali,Turkish,Urdu,Ushoji,Uyghur,Uzbek,Wakhi,Wanetsi,Wolof,Xiao'erjing,Yidgha

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