Bartangi

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Bartangi is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Bartang Valley region of Tajikistan.

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Bartangi canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Iranian language
language
classificationStatus also considered a distinct Pamir language by some linguists
sometimes treated as a dialect of Shughni-Rushani
continent Asia
country Tajikistan NERFINISHED
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
geographicFeature Pamir Mountains NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Bartang NERFINISHED
Bartangic NERFINISHED
hasFeature SOV basic word order
contrast between aspirated and unaspirated consonants
rich case system
vowel length distinctions
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Persian NERFINISHED
Tajik NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative tendencies
case marking on nouns
hasOralTradition local folklore and narratives
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant clusters
hasSyntacticFeature postpositions rather than prepositions
ISO639-3Code btg
languageBranch Eastern Iranian
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European

Indo-Iranian NERFINISHED
linguisticArea Pamir linguistic area NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguages Rushani NERFINISHED
Shughni NERFINISHED
Tajik NERFINISHED
Wakhi NERFINISHED
numberOfSpeakers a few thousand speakers
region Bartang Valley NERFINISHED
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region NERFINISHED
researchField Iranian linguistics
Pamir linguistics
sociolinguisticSituation Tajik widely used as lingua franca and in education
used mainly in oral communication
spokenBy bilingual speakers of Bartangi and Tajik
spokenIn villages along the Bartang River
subclassOf Pamir language NERFINISHED
threatenedBy language shift to Tajik
usedByEthnicGroup Bartangi people NERFINISHED
vitalityTrend declining intergenerational transmission
writingSystem none or limited use of a standardized script

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