Pamir Sprachbund
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The Pamir Sprachbund is a linguistic convergence area in the Pamir Mountains where several genetically distinct languages, including Eastern Iranian and others, have developed shared structural features through long-term contact.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pamir Sprachbund canonical | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sprachbund
ⓘ
areal feature complex ⓘ linguistic area ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
areal convergence
ⓘ
contact-induced change ⓘ shared structural features due to contact ⓘ structural similarity across unrelated languages ⓘ |
| definedBy | structural convergence rather than common ancestry ⓘ |
| differsFrom | genetic language family ⓘ |
| hasCause |
geographical proximity of speech communities
ⓘ
intensive language contact ⓘ long-term multilingual contact ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
areal diffusion of evidentiality patterns
ⓘ
areal diffusion of tense-aspect categories ⓘ convergent case systems ⓘ shared lexical items through borrowing ⓘ similar morphosyntactic patterns ⓘ similar phonological patterns ⓘ similar verb agreement patterns ⓘ |
| hasGeneticDiversity |
Eastern Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian
ⓘ
other language families ⓘ |
| hasMemberLanguage |
Bartangi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Iranian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Ishkashimi NERFINISHED ⓘ Munji NERFINISHED ⓘ Rushani NERFINISHED ⓘ Sanglechi NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarikoli NERFINISHED ⓘ Shughni NERFINISHED ⓘ Wakhi NERFINISHED ⓘ Yazgulyam NERFINISHED ⓘ Yidgha NERFINISHED ⓘ non-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| hasRegion |
Afghanistan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Badakhshan region NERFINISHED ⓘ Tajikistan NERFINISHED ⓘ Xinjiang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResearchTopic |
areal typology
ⓘ
contact-induced grammaticalization ⓘ language convergence ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Asia
ⓘ
High Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Pamir Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| overlapsWith | Pamir languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Greater Central Asian linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
Iranian linguistics
ⓘ
areal linguistics ⓘ contact linguistics ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.