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.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Munji language canonical 3

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

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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