Munji language

E522471

The Munji language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Munji people in Afghanistan’s remote Munjan Valley, closely related to the Yidgha language of Pakistan.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Munji language canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language ⓘ
Iranian language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Yidgha language NERFINISHED ⓘ
country Afghanistan ⓘ
endangeredStatus endangered language ⓘ
geographicProximityTo Yidgha-speaking areas of Pakistan ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Munjani NERFINISHED ⓘ
Munjiwar ⓘ
hasCaseSystem case-marking on nouns ⓘ
hasContactWith Dari Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ
Pashto NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDialectContinuumWith Yidgha language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup Munji people NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasGenderSystem grammatical gender ⓘ
hasLinguisticRelation Yidgha language NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType fusional ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunityType mountain village communities ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV ⓘ
historicalAncestor Proto-Indo-European language NERFINISHED ⓘ
Proto-Indo-Iranian language ⓘ
Proto-Iranian language ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ
ISO639-3 mnj ⓘ
languageBranch Indo-Iranian branch ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-European language family NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageGroup Iranian group ⓘ
languageSubgroup Eastern Iranian subgroup ⓘ
linguisticArea Hindu Kush NERFINISHED ⓘ
region Badakhshan region NERFINISHED ⓘ
northeastern Afghanistan ⓘ
script Arabic script ⓘ
sharesFeaturesWith other Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
other Pamir languages ⓘ
spokenBy Munji people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ
Munjan Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenInValley Munjan Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ
subfamilyOf Eastern Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Indo-European languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Indo-Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
transmission primarily oral ⓘ
usedFor oral communication ⓘ
vitality severely endangered ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pamir languages → hasMember → Munji language ⓘ
Yidgha → closelyRelatedTo → Munji language ⓘ
Yidgha → isMutuallyIntelligibleWith → Munji language ⓘ