Sarikoli language

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The Sarikoli language is an Eastern Iranian Pamir language spoken primarily by the Tajik ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Pamir language
endangered language
natural language
belongsToEthnicGroup Chinese Tajiks NERFINISHED
contactWith Standard Chinese NERFINISHED
Tajik language
Uyghur language NERFINISHED
country China
surface form: People's Republic of China
family Indo-European languages
glottocode sari1247
hasAlternativeName Sariköli NERFINISHED
Sariqoli NERFINISHED
Tashkurgan Sarikoli NERFINISHED
Tashkurgan Tajik NERFINISHED
hasDomain home and community use
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (reported in descriptions)
series of retroflex consonants (typical of Pamir languages)
isDistinctFrom Tajik language of Tajikistan
isNotMutuallyIntelligibleWith Tajik language (Western Iranian) NERFINISHED
iso639-3 srh
languageFamily Pamir branch of Eastern Iranian
linguisticArea Pamir linguistic area
region Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
relatedTo Other Eastern Iranian Pamir languages
Shughni language NERFINISHED
Wakhi language NERFINISHED
script Arabic script
Latin script (informal or scholarly use)
spokenBy Sarikoli people NERFINISHED
Tajik ethnic minority in China
spokenIn China NERFINISHED
Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County NERFINISHED
Xinjiang NERFINISHED
status minority language in China
not an official language in China
subbranch Eastern Iranian languages
subfamily Indo-Iranian languages NERFINISHED
Iranian languages NERFINISHED
subgroup Pamir languages NERFINISHED
threatenedBy language shift to Chinese
language shift to Uyghur
typologicalFeature SOV basic word order
genderless noun system
rich case system
usedInEducation rarely or not officially

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Pamir languages hasMember Sarikoli language
Pamiris speak Sarikoli language