Western Katë dialect

Western Katë is a dialect of the Katë language spoken by the Kata in parts of Afghanistan. The most used alternative names are Kata-vari or Kati.
Together with the Northeastern dialect, it is spoken by approximately 40,000 people, and its speakers are Muslim. Literacy rates are low: below 1% for people who have it as a first language, and between 15% and 25% for people who have it as a second language.
There are several subdialects spoken in the Ramgal, Kulam, Ktivi and Paruk valleys of Nuristan.

Innovations

According to Halfmann, the primary innovations of the Western dialect include loss of nasalization, a progressive suffix -n-, and a past copula stem st-.

Phonology

Consonants

Sounds /ʒ ɽ ɣ/ occur from neighboring languages. /f x/ are borrowed from loanwords.
/ʈ/ can also be heard as an allophone .
is heard as an allophone of /i/.
/v/ can also be heard as bilabial or a labial approximant .

Vowels

Mid /ə/ can be heard as a close central .

Vocabulary

Numbers

e, ev
dyu
tre
štëvó
puč
ṣu
sut
vuṣṭ
nu
duċ
yaníċ
diċ
triċ
šturéċ, štruċ
pčiċ
ṣeċ
stiċ
ṣṭiċ
neċ
''vëċë́''