Yazgulyam
yuzdami zevég
Yazgulyam is an Indo-European language spoken in Tajikistan, by about 3,300 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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The Yazghulami language (also Yazgulami, Yazgulyami, Iazgulem, Yazgulyam, Yazgulam, Yazgulyamskiy, Jazguljamskij; Tajik: язғуломӣ (Yazghulomi)) is a member of the Southeastern subgroup of the Iranian languages, spoken by around 9,000 people along the Yazghulom River in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. Together with Shugni, it is classified in a Shugni-Yazgulami subgroup of the areal group of Pamir languages. Virtually all speakers of Yazghulami are bilingual in Tajik, the variety of the Persian language spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The Yazghulami people are an exception among the speakers of Pamir languages in that they do not adhere to Ismailism.
From Wikipedia · Yazghulami language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Yazgulyam
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | inson* | |
| name | n3m* | |
| eye | čām | |
| ear | x3von* | |
| nose | neZ* | |
| tooth | 8an* | |
| tongue | zveg* | |
| hand | 8ust* | |
| blood | xun* | |
| bone | Seg* | |
| skin | kux* | |
| knee | z3n* | |
| breast | dot* | |
| liver | 8ed* | |
| water | xex | |
| fire | yec | |
| sun | xvor* | |
| star | Starak* | |
| stone | xar* | |
| mountain | x3rCug* | |
| tree | d3ruxt* | |
| leaf | kifk* | |
| night | Sab* | |
| dog | kod* | |
| fish | mahay* | |
| louse | s3paw* | |
| one | wog* | |
| two | 8ow* | |
| I | az* | |
| you | tow* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Glottolog · yazg1240 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · yah