Shughni language

Shughni
Shughni
خُږنۈنے زِڤ хуг̌ну̊ни зив xuɣ̌nůni ziv, xuɣ̌ni ziv
Native to	Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China
Ethnicity	Shughnan
Native speakers	95,000 (2011)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Southeastern Iranian Shughni-Yazghulami-Munji Shughni-Yazghulami Shughni-Sarikoli Shughni; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bartangi-Oroshori; Khughni-Bajui; Rushani-Khufi;
Writing system	Latin, Persian, Cyrillic
Official status
Recognised minority; language in	Tajikistan (in Gorno-Badakhshan), Afghanistan (in Badakhshan)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sgh
Glottolog	shug1248
ELP	Shughni
	Shughni is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Shughni is one of the Pamir languages of the Southeastern Iranian language group. Its distribution is in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan, Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan, Chitral district in Pakistan and Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in China.

Shughni-Rushani tends towards SOV word order, distinguishes a masculine and feminine gender in nouns and some adjectives, as well as the 3rd person singular of verbs. Shughni distinguishes between an absolutive and an oblique case in its system of pronouns. Rushani is noted for a typologically unusual 'double-oblique' construction, also called a 'transitive case', in the past tense. Normally Soviet school scientists consider Rushani as a close but independent language to Shughni, while Western school scientists codes Rushani as a dialect of Shughni due to Afghanistan Rushani speakers living in the Shighnan district of Badakhshan Province.