Shughni
Sign in to saveAlso known as Shughni language, Shughni-Bajuvi language
Eastern Iranian language
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Vinony's link graph records 293 inbound references to Shughni, and connects out to Tati, Rushani and Arabic.
It is catalogued under topics including Eastern Iranian languages, Endangered Iranian languages and Endangered languages of Tajikistan.
Vinony links it to 45 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- Tajikistan , Afghanistan , Pakistan , China
- Ethnicity
- Shughnan
- Native speakers
- 95,000 (2011)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Southeastern Iranian Shughni-Yazghulami-Munji Shughni-Yazghulami Shughni-Sarikoli Shughni
- Dialects
- Bartangi - Oroshori Khughni-Bajui Rushani - Khufi
- Writing system
- Latin , Persian , Cyrillic
- Recognised minority language in
- Tajikistan (in Gorno-Badakhshan ), Afghanistan (in Badakhshan )
- Iso 639 3
- sgh
- Glottolog
- shug1248
- Elp
- Shughni
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- short name
- шугнанский
- native label
- xuɣ̌nůni ziv / хуг̌ну̊ни зив
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/sgh
- Wikimedia language code
- sgh
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 64800
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Encyclopedic overview
Shughni is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian language group. Its distribution is in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan, Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan, Chitral district in Pakistan and Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in China.
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 Shighnan district of Badakhshan Province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shughni” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.