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14-648: Sanglechi is a Pamiri language spoken in villages in the Zebak District of Afghanistan : Dashte Rubat, Esketul, Faruq, Flaxmadek, Sar-Sanglech, and Takya. It is also spoken in Tajikistan , where it is called Sanglich . The name comes from the Sanglech valley in which many of the people live. The language is closely related to the Munjani and Pashto languages of Afghanistan. This Indo-European languages -related article

28-517: A Shughni-Yazgulyam group including Shughni , Sarikoli , and Yazgulyam ; Munji and Yidgha ; Ishkashimi and related dialects; and Wakhi . They have the subject-object-verb syntactic typology . Václav Blažek (2019) suggests that the Pamir languages have a Burushaski -like substratum . Although Burushaski is today spoken in Pakistan to the south of the Pamir language area, Burushaski formerly had

42-535: A much wider geographic distribution before being assimilated by Indo-Iranian languages. The Shughni , Sarikoli , and Yazgulyam languages belong to the Shughni-Yazgulami branch. There are about 75,000 speakers of languages in this family in Afghanistan and Tajikistan (including the dialects of Rushani , Bartangi , Oroshori , Khufi , and Shughni ). In 1982, there were about 20,000 speakers of Sarikoli in

56-426: A phonology consisting of the stop consonants p, b, t, d, k, g and q, the fricative consonants f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, x, ɣ, χ, ʁ and h, the affricate consonants t͡ʃ and d͡ʒ and the sonorants m, w, n, r, l, j and ŋ as well as the vowels a, e, ẹ, i, ə, o, ü and u. Much less can be discerned about the grammar of Vanji: there were probably two genders , masculine and feminine, with plurals of nouns formed by adding

70-444: A result of assimilation. The Russian linguist Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin was the first to assess the language in the early 20th century, by which time it was already extinct. Zarubin was able to collect only words and phrases recalled by older inhabitants of the region as having been spoken by their grandparents who still knew something of the language, and he considered it one of the Pamir languages. The language as reconstructed had

84-552: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pamiri language In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Pamir language family was sometimes referred to as the Ghalchah languages by western scholars. The term Ghalchah is no longer used to refer to the Pamir languages or the native speakers of these languages. The Pamirian languages are spoken primarily in the Badakhshan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and

98-676: Is an extinct Iranian language, one of the areal group of Iranian languages . It was spoken in the Vanj River valley in what is now the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan . In the 19th century the region was forcibly annexed to the Bukharan Emirate and a campaign of violent assimilation undertaken, and by the end of the 19th century, the Vanji language had completely disappeared, displaced by Tajik Persian as

112-727: The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of eastern Tajikistan . Pamirian languages are also spoken in Xinjiang and the Pamir language Sarikoli is spoken beyond the Sarikol Range on the Afghanistan-China border and thus qualifies as the easternmost of the extant Iranian languages. Wakhi communities are also found in the adjacent Chitral District , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in Gojal , Gilgit Baltistan in Pakistan . The only other living member of

126-695: The Sarikol Valley located in the Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang Province, China . Shughni and Sarikoli are not mutually intelligible. In 1994, there were 4000 speakers of Yazgulyam along the Yazgulyam River in Tajikistan . Yazgulyam is not written. The Vanji language was spoken in the Vanj river valley in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan , and

140-590: The Munji-Yidgha branch. There are about 2,500 speakers of Sanglechi and Ishkashmi in Afghanistan and Tajikistan respectively; they are not written languages. There are around 58,000 speakers of the Wakhi language in Afghanistan , Tajikistan , China , Pakistan , and Russia . The vast majority of Pamir speakers in Tajikistan and Afghanistan also use Tajik (Persian) as a literary language, which is—unlike

154-602: The Southeastern Iranian group is Pashto . No features uniting the Pamir languages as a single subgroup of Iranian have been demonstrated. The Ethnologue lists the Pamir languages along with Pashto as Southeastern Iranian, however, according to Encyclopedia Iranica , the Pamirian languages and Pashto belong to the North-Eastern Iranian branch. Members of the Pamirian language area include four reliable groups:

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168-564: The former Chitral district of Pakistan , and in 2008 there were around 5,300 speakers of Munji mainly in the Mamalgha and Munjan valleys in the Kuran wa Munjan district of the Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan . Munji-Yidgha shares with Bactrian a development *ð > /l/ , absent from the other three Pamir groups. The extinct Sarghulami language of Badakhshan is thought to be of

182-563: The languages of the Pamir group—a Southwestern Iranian tongue. The language group is endangered, with the total number of speakers roughly around 100,000 in 1990. One of the most prolific researchers of the Pamir languages was Soviet linguist Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin . Linguist Ross Perlin is also leading a Pamir languages research and preservation project at the Endangered Language Alliance . Vanji language The Vanji language , also spelt Vanchi and Vanži ,

196-614: Was related to Yazgulyam . In the 19th century, the region was forcibly annexed to the Bukharan Emirate and a violent assimilation campaign was undertaken. By the end of the 19th century the Vanji language had disappeared, displaced by Tajik Persian . Most language speakers and others in Tajikistan refer to languages in this group as 'Pamirski" or 'Pamir'. (e.g. "I can speak Pamir, Ishkashem and Wakhi") The Munji and Yidgha languages are closely related. There are about 6,000 speakers of Yidgha in Upper Lotkoh Valley recorded in

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