Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Pamir Mountains
- Ethnicity
- Pamiris
- Linguistic classification
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Eastern Southeastern Pamir
- Glottolog
- shug1237 (Shughni-Yazghulami) , yidg1239 (Yidgha-Munji) , sang1316 (Sanglechi-Ishkashimi) , wakh1245 (Wakhi)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- Eastern Iranian
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- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- linguistic typology
- subject–object–verb
- topic's main category
- Category:Pamir languages
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 135000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pamir languages are an areal group of the Eastern Iranian languages, spoken by numerous people in the Pamir Mountains, primarily along the Panj River and its tributaries.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pamir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.