Roshani language

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The Roshani language is an Eastern Iranian Pamir language spoken by the Roshani people in parts of the Badakhshan region of Afghanistan and Tajikistan.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Rushani language 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Pamir language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Bartangi language NERFINISHED
Khufi language NERFINISHED
Shughni language NERFINISHED
contactWith Dari Persian NERFINISHED
Tajik language NERFINISHED
country Afghanistan
Tajikistan NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
geographicDistribution border areas of Afghanistan and Tajikistan
valleys of the Panj River
hasAlternativeName Roshani-Rushani NERFINISHED
Rushani
hasDialect Roshani NERFINISHED
Shughni-Roshani continuum
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
Persian NERFINISHED
Tajik NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated stops
contrastive vowel length
series of retroflex consonants
ISO639-3Code rsh
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
lexifierFamily Iranian languages
minorityLanguageIn Afghanistan NERFINISHED
Tajikistan NERFINISHED
partOf Pamir languages group NERFINISHED
region Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
Pamir Mountains NERFINISHED
spokenBy Roshani people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Afghanistan NERFINISHED
Badakhshan region NERFINISHED
Tajikistan NERFINISHED
subclassOf Eastern Iranian language
Iranian language
Pamir language NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
gender distinctions
rich case system
usedFor oral communication
usedInCommunity Roshani ethnic group NERFINISHED
writingSystem Perso-Arabic script NERFINISHED

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Pamir languages hasMember Roshani language
Pamiris speak Roshani language
this entity surface form: Rushani language