Shughni language
Pamir language of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shughni or Khughni (in the local language: хуг̌ну̊ни зив tr. khughnöni ziv; Tajik: шуғнонӣ, Persian: شغنانی), is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian language group.[2][1] Its distribution is in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan, Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan, Chitral district in Pakistan and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China.[2][3]
Shughni | |
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Shugnani-Rushani | |
xuɣnůni ziv/хуг̌ну̊ни зив, pomiray/помирай зив/خُږنۈنے زِڤ | |
Native to | Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China |
Ethnicity | Shughnan |
Native speakers | (50,000 Shughni proper, ca. 75,000 all varieties cited 1990)[1] |
Indo-European
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Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sgh |
Glottolog | shug1248 |
ELP | |
Shughni is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
Shughni-Rushani tends towards SOV word order, distinguishes a masculine and feminine gender in nouns and some adjectives, as well as the 3rd person singular of verbs. Shughni distinguishes between an absolutive and an oblique case in its system of pronouns. Rushani is noted for a typologically unusual 'double-oblique' construction, also called a 'transitive case', in the past tense. Normally Soviet school scientists consider Rushani as a close but independent language to Shughni, while Western school scientists codes Rushani as a dialect of Shughni due to Afghanistan Rushani speakers living in the Sheghnan district of Badakhshan Province.