Wakhi

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Wakhi is an Eastern Iranian language traditionally spoken by the Wakhi people in the high mountain regions of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and China.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Wakhi canonical 33
Wakhi people 11
Wakhi language 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language
Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Iranian language
closelyRelatedTo Sarikoli
Shughni
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnologueEntry Wakhi self-link
glottologCode wakh1245
hasAlternativeName Khik
Wakhi
surface form: Wakhi Pamiri
hasDialects regional varieties in Afghanistan
regional varieties in China
regional varieties in Pakistan
regional varieties in Tajikistan
hasMorphology agglutinative features
case marking on nouns
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSociolinguisticFeature limited use in formal education
many speakers are bilingual in dominant national languages
primarily oral tradition
iso639-3Code wbl
languageFamily Eastern Iranian
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European

Indo-Iranian languages
surface form: Indo-Iranian

Iranian languages
surface form: Iranian
region High mountain regions of Afghanistan
High mountain regions of China
High mountain regions of Pakistan
High mountain regions of Tajikistan
Pamir Mountains
spokenBy Wakhi self-linksurface differs
surface form: Wakhi people
spokenIn Afghanistan
China
Gilgit-Baltistan
Gojal Valley
Badakhshan
surface form: Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region

Pakistan
Tajikistan
Wakhan Corridor
Xinjiang
typology subject–object–verb word order
usedAs community language in Gojal Valley
community language in Wakhan Corridor
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Cyrillic script
Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (49)

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

Iranian languages hasMajorLanguage Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi language
Wakhan Corridor inhabitedBy Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
Wakhi spokenBy Wakhi self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
Wakhi hasAlternativeName Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi Pamiri
Wakhi ethnologueEntry Wakhi self-link
Pamir languages hasMember Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi language
Badakhshan ethnicGroup Wakhi
Pamiris speak Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi language
Karimabad inhabitedBy Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
Karimabad localLanguage Wakhi
Gojal ethnicGroup Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
Passu hasPrimaryLanguage Wakhi
Passu hasEthnicGroup Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
Hussaini hasLanguage Wakhi
Gulmit ethnicGroup Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
Gulmit languageSpoken Wakhi
Hunza District hasLanguage Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi language
Kho people neighboringGroups Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
Aliabad localLanguage Wakhi
Burusho people neighboringGroup Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
Wakhan District hasEthnicGroup Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
Shishkat village ethnicGroup Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people
GB hasLocalLanguages Wakhi
Hunza hasLanguage Wakhi
Gojal Valley ethnicGroup Wakhi
this entity surface form: Wakhi people