HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Khufi is a Pamir language spoken in Tajikistan's
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains. It makes up nearly forty-five percent of the country's land area but only two percent of its popul ...
. It is closely related to Shughni, and is traditionally considered a dialect of it, but it is quite distinct. It is spoken in the villages of Khuf and Pastkhuf in the Khufdara River gorge, a right-hand tributary of Panj that descends from the Rushan Range south of the Bartang River and the town of Rushon.


References


See also

* Памирские языки in Russian Wikipedia. Languages of Tajikistan Endangered languages of Tajikistan Pamir languages Endangered Iranian languages {{IndoEuropean-lang-stub