Shughni (language)

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Shughni.

Spoken in

Tajikistan, Afghanistan
speaker 75,000 (1990) [1]
Linguistic
classification
  • Indo-European languages
    • Indo-Iranian languages
      • Iranian languages
        • Eastern Iranian languages [2]
    Shughni (language)
Language codes
ISO 639-3

sgh [3]

Shughni or Khughni ( Persian : شغنانی) is a southeastern Iranian language in Tajikistan and in the province of Badakhshan in Afghanistan is spoken.

Like many Iranian and Indo-European languages , Shughni tends towards the SOP word order, differentiating between a masculine and a feminine gender in nouns and some adjectives as well as the third person singular of verbs . In his pronouns Shughni has a bicasus inflection with a rectus case (nominative) and an obliquus for everything else. The Rushani dialect is known for a typologically unusual "double obliquus" construction, which in the past tense is also referred to as "transitive case". Shughni is closely related to Yazghulami .

Dialects and script

Rushani, Bartangi, Oroshor (Roshorvi), Khufi and Shughni are considered dialects. However, Bartangi and Khufi are very different and can be separate languages.

In Afghanistan the Persian variant of the Arabic script is used, in Tajikistan the Cyrillic script . The Latin script is also used.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Glottolog 4.1 - Shughni. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .