Sarikoli

E228138

Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic community in the Tashkurgan region of Xinjiang, China.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Iranian language
language
alternativeName Sarikoli
surface form: Sariqoli

Tashkurgan Sarikoli
Tashkurgan
surface form: Tashkurgan Tajik
associatedEthnicity Tajik people of Tashkurgan
belongsToBranch Pamir branch of Eastern Iranian (in some classifications)
closelyRelatedTo Rushani
Shughni
communityBilingualism Chinese
Tajik (Persian variety)
country China
documentationStatus limited descriptive grammars and wordlists
endangermentCause shift to Chinese
shift to Tajik (Persian-based) standard
ethnologueEntry yes
glottocode sari1248
hasCase nominative
oblique
hasFeature ergative alignment in past tenses (split ergativity)
grammatical gender
rich case system
hasNumber plural
singular
ISO639-3 srh
languageFamily Iranian
linguisticArea Pamir languages
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Tajik language
surface form: Tajik (variety of Persian)
officialStatusInChina none
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported)
series of retroflex consonants (reported)
primaryDomainOfUse home and local community
region Hindu Kush–Pamir region
surface form: Pamir region
script Arabic script
Latin script (informal, nonstandard)
spokenBy Tajik ethnic community in Tashkurgan
Tajiks
surface form: Tajiks of China
spokenIn China
Tashkurgan
surface form: Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County

Xinjiang
status endangered language
minority language
subfamily Eastern Iranian languages
surface form: Eastern Iranian
usedInEducation no (Chinese and standard Tajik are used instead)
wordOrder SOV
writingStandard no fully standardized orthography

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Wakhi closelyRelatedTo Sarikoli
Sarikoli alternativeName Sarikoli
this entity surface form: Sariqoli
Shughni hasDialect Sarikoli
this entity surface form: Sarikoli (sometimes classified separately)