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Key facts
- Native to
- China , Pakistan
- Region
- Pamir Mountains ( Tashkurgan , China, and Chitral , Pakistan)
- Ethnicity
- Sarikolis
- Native speakers
- (16,000 cited 2000)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Southeastern Shughni-Yazghulami-Munji Shughni-Yazghulami Shughni-Sarikoli Sarikoli
- Writing system
- Uyghur Arabic alphabet (unofficial)
- Iso 639 3
- srh
- Glottolog
- sari1246
- Elp
- Sarikoli
- Linguasphere
- 58-ABD-eb
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- Pakistan
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 16000
- topic's main category
- Category:Sarikoli language
- indigenous to
- Xinjiang
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/srh
- Wikimedia language code
- srh
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Sarikoli language (also Sariqoli, Selekur, Sarikul, Sariqul, Sariköli) is a member of the Pamir subgroup of the Southeastern Iranian languages spoken by the Pamiris in Xinjiang, China and Chitral, Pakistan. It is officially referred to as "the Tajik language" in China, although it is different from the Tajik language spoken in Tajikistan, which is closely related to Persian.
Nomenclature
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sarikoli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.