Key facts
- Native to
- Afghanistan , China , Pakistan , Tajikistan
- Ethnicity
- Wakhi
- Native speakers
- (58,000 cited 1992–2012)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Northeastern Scythian Eastern Wakhi
- Early forms
- Scythian Saka
- Writing system
- Persian , Cyrillic , Latin
- Recognised minority language in
- Tajikistan (in Gorno-Badakhshan )
- Iso 639 3
- wbl
- Glottolog
- wakh1245
- Elp
- Wakhi
- Linguasphere
- 58-ABD-c
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Wakhi (ښیکوار, Х̆икв̆ор, romanized: X̌ikwor, pronounced [xikwɔr]) is an Eastern Iranic language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily by the Wakhi people native to the Wakhan District of northern Afghanistan, as well as neighboring areas of Pakistan, Tajikistan, and China.
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Eastern Iranian languagesEndangered Iranian languagesEndangered languages of AsiaEndangered languages of TajikistanIll-formatted infobox-language imagesLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 18Language articles with Linguasphere codeLanguage articles with old Ethnologue 18 speaker dataLanguages of Gilgit-BaltistanLanguages of TajikistanLanguages of Xinjiang