Rushani language
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Rushani dialect
)| Rushani | |
|---|---|
| rix̌ůn ziv, риx̌ӯн зив | |
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| Native to | Afghanistan, Tajikistan |
| Ethnicity | 73,800 Rushan people[1] |
Native speakers | (18,000 cited 1990)[1] |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | rush1239 |
| ELP | Rushani |
Rushani is one of the Pamir languages spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
Oroshori sharing many grammatical and vocabulary similarity with all of them especially with Shughni and thus some linguists consider it a dialect of Shughni
.
Shi'a Islam.[2]
Language use
Rushani, like Shughni, is only used in unofficial settings. All of the children in the community learn Rushani as their first language and rely heavily on it until they enroll in school. It is only then that they learn the official language of the country.[2] Adult speakers are all bi- or tri-lingual in Tajik and Russian.
Traditionally Rushani was not a written language, with Rushani speakers writing in Persian.[3] Writing systems have been developed for the language using Cyrillic and Latin scripts, for example for use in translation of parts of the bible by the Institute for Bible Translation.
Verbs
Rushani is unusual in having a
nominative–accusative alignment.[5] See transitive alignment
for examples.
Literature
- Zarubin, I.I.Bartangskie i rushanskie teksty i slovar. Moskva : Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1937.
- Payne, John, "Pamir languages" in Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, ed. Schmitt (1989), 417–444.
- Payne, John. "The decay of ergativity in Pamir languages." Lingua 51:147-186.
References
- ^ a b Shughni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b c Muller, K. 2010: Language in Community-Oriented and Contact-Oriented Domains: The Case of the Shughni of Tajakistan. SIL International.
- ^ Dodykhudoeva, L. 2007: Revitalization of minority languages: comparative dictionary of key cultural terms in the languages and dialects of the Shugni-Rushani group. London: SOAS.
- ^ or perhaps perfective aspect
- ^ J.R. Payne, 'Language Universals and Language Types', in Collinge, ed. 1990. An Encyclopedia of Language. Routledge. From Payne, 1980.
External links
- Rushani [1] at the Endangered Languages Project