Munji language

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The Munji language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Munji people in Afghanistan’s remote Munjan Valley, closely related to the Yidgha language of Pakistan.

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Label Occurrences
Munji language canonical 15

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Iranian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Yidgha language
country Afghanistan
endangeredStatus endangered language
geographicProximityTo Yidgha-speaking areas of Pakistan
hasAlternativeName Munjani
Munjiwar
hasCaseSystem case-marking on nouns
hasContactWith Dari Persian
linked to: Persian language

Pashto
linked to: Pashto language
hasDialectContinuumWith Yidgha language
hasEthnicGroup Munji people
hasGenderSystem grammatical gender
hasLinguisticRelation Yidgha language
hasMorphologicalType fusional
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunityType mountain village communities
hasWordOrder SOV
historicalAncestor Proto-Indo-European language
linked to: Proto-Indo-European

Proto-Indo-Iranian language
Proto-Iranian language
isMinorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
ISO639-3 mnj
languageBranch Indo-Iranian branch
languageFamily Indo-European language family
languageGroup Iranian group
languageSubgroup Eastern Iranian subgroup
linguisticArea Hindu Kush
region Badakhshan region
linked to: Badakhshan

northeastern Afghanistan
script Arabic script
sharesFeaturesWith other Eastern Iranian languages
other Pamir languages
spokenBy Munji people
spokenIn Afghanistan
Munjan Valley
spokenInValley Munjan Valley
subfamilyOf Eastern Iranian languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
transmission primarily oral
usedFor oral communication
vitality severely endangered

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Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pamir languages hasMember Munji language
Yidgha closelyRelatedTo Munji language
Yidgha isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Munji language
Yidgha language sharesIsoglossWith Munji language
Yidgha language hasNeighborLanguage Munji language
Sanglechi language neighboringLanguage Munji language
Pamiri peoples speaks Munji language
Yidgha closelyRelatedTo Munji language
subject linked to: Yudga
Yidgha isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Munji language
subject linked to: Yudga
Yudgha closelyRelatedTo Munji language
Munjan Valley primaryLanguage Munji language
Munjan Valley knownFor Munji language
Munjani alternativeNameOf Munji language
Yidgha people relatedLanguage Munji language
Munji people language Munji language