Munji

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Munji is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Munji people in the remote Munjan Valley of northeastern Afghanistan.

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Label Occurrences
Munji canonical 5

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Iranian language
language
closelyRelatedTo Yidgha
continent Asia
country Afghanistan
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
ethnicGroup Munji people
hasAlternativeName Munjani
Munjani
surface form: Munjaniwar

Munjani
surface form: Munjī
hasCaseSystem multiple grammatical cases
hasGenderSystem grammatical gender
hasGlottocode munj1242
hasISO6393Code mnj
hasLinguisticTypology postpositional language
subject–object–verb word order
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Persian language
surface form: Dari Persian

Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
hasMorphologyType fusional
hasNumberOfSpeakers a few thousand
hasNumberSystem singular and plural
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticSituation mainly oral with limited written use
hasTenseAspectSystem past vs non-past distinction
hasVitalityTrend declining intergenerational transmission
isMinorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
isSpokenInValleyOf Munjan River NERFINISHED
languageFamily Eastern Iranian
Iranian languages
surface form: Iranian
linguisticBranch Eastern Iranian
locatedInMountainRange Hindu Kush
region northeastern Afghanistan
riskFactor geographic isolation
language shift to Dari Persian
small speaker population
spokenBy Munji people
spokenIn Afghanistan
Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan
surface form: Badakhshan Province

Munjan Valley
subclassOf Eastern Iranian languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

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