Yazghulami (language)

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Yazghulami yuzdami zevég

Spoken in

Tajikistan
speaker 9000 [1]
Linguistic
classification
  • Indo-European languages
    • Indo-Iranian languages
      • Iranian languages
        • Eastern Iranian languages
          • Shugni-Yazgulami
    Yazghulami (language)
Language codes
ISO 639-3

Yah

The Yazgulyam language (also Yazgulyami, Iazgulem, Yazgulam) belongs to the southeast subgroup of the Iranian languages and is spoken by around 9,000 people along the Yazghulyam River in Gorno-Badakhshan , Tajikistan . Together with Shugni, it is counted in a Shugni-Yazgulami subgroup of the south-east Iranian languages. Practically all speakers are bilingual and, in addition to Yazghulami, also spoke Tajik , which is close to Persian .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redirected. November 19, 2019, accessed on March 16, 2020 .