Yazgulyam language
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The Yazgulyam language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by a small community in Tajikistan’s Yazgulyam Valley, notable for preserving many archaic features within the Pamir language group.
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Eastern Iranian language
ⓘ
Pamir language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| classificationAuthority |
Ethnologue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glottolog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Shughni language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
other Pamir languages ⓘ |
| contactLanguage |
Russian language
ⓘ
Tajik language ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Tajikistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | definitely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yazgulyam people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| glottocode | yazg1238 ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Lower Yazgulyam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Upper Yazgulyam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
preserves archaic Eastern Iranian features
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relatively conservative morphology ⓘ relatively conservative phonology ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | yah ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Pamir languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-Iranian languages
ⓘ
Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSubfamily | Eastern Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakersApproximate | several thousand ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| region | Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riskFactor | language shift to Tajik ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Tajikistan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yazgulyam Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusInEducation | not widely used as medium of instruction ⓘ |
| statusInMedia | very limited media presence ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ |
| usedBy | rural mountain communities ⓘ |
| usedFor | oral communication ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Cyrillic script ⓘ |
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