Shugni

E806540

Shugni is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily in the Badakhshan region of Tajikistan and Afghanistan by the Shughni people.

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Label Occurrences
Shugni canonical 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Iranian language
language
closelyRelatedTo Bartangi language
Khufi language
Oroshori language
linked to: Ishkashimi language

Rushan language
country Afghanistan
Tajikistan
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Shughni
glottocode shug1248
hasAlternativeName Shughnan
linked to: Shughni

Shughnani
linked to: Shughni

Shughni
Shughnoni
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialect Khorog dialect
Rushan-Shugni continuum
hasMorphologicalType fusional
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasWritingSystem Cyrillic script
Perso-Arabic script
influencedBy Persian
linked to: Persian language

Russian
Tajik
linked to: Tajiks
ISO639-3Code sgh
languageBranch Eastern Iranian
languageFamily Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
linguisticArea Pamir Mountains
neighboringLanguage Munji
Sarikoli
Wakhi
region Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
linked to: Badakhshan
scriptDirection right-to-left
spokenBy Shughni people
spokenIn Afghanistan
Badakhshan region
linked to: Badakhshan

Tajikistan
subclassOf Pamir language
linked to: Pamir languages
usedFor daily communication
oral literature
usedInEducation limited local use
usedInMedia local radio programs

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Shughni hasAlternativeName Shugni