Pamiri languages
| Pamir languages | |
|---|---|
| (ethnically defined) | |
| Geographic distribution |
Pamir Mountains |
| Linguistic classification | Indo-European |
| Glottolog |
shug1237 (Shughni-Yazgulami) yidg1239 (Munji-Yidgha) sang1316 (Sanglechi-Ishkashimi) wakh1245 (Wakhi) |
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. This includes the Badakhshan Province of Northeastern Afghanistan and the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Eastern Tajikistan. Pamir communities are also found in the adjacent Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gojal, Gilgit Baltistan in Pakistan. Sarikoli, one of the languages of the Pamir group, is spoken beyond the Sarikol Range on the Afghanistan-China border, and thus qualifies as the easternmost of the extant Iranian languages. The only other living member of the Southeastern Iranian group is Pashto.
No features uniting the Pamir languages as a single subgroup of Iranian have been demonstrated. The Ethnologue lists Pamir languages along with Pashto as Southeastern Iranian, however, according to Encyclopedia Iranica, Pamir languages and Pashto belong to the North-Eastern Iranian branch. Members of the Pamir language area include four reliable groups: a Shughni-Yazgulyam group including Shughni, Sarikoli, and Yazgulyam; Munji and Yidgha; Ishkashimi and related dialects; and Wakhi. They have the subject-object-verb syntactic typology.
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