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	Yaghnubi Language - (CAIS)
		As late as the 17th century the Sogdian language, of which the Yaghnabi language is a continuation, was widely spoken in the Zeravshan and Kashkadarya valleys, in Usrushan (an area between Samarkand and Hodzhent) and in the Fergana valley.
		It has survived as the language of a small ethnic group, the Yaghnabis, in a marginal mountain area in the upper part of the Zeravshan valley, and in the Fandarya and Yaghnob valleys.
		One of the reasons for the survival of the Yaghnabi language is reputedly the relatively late Islamization of the Yaghnabis.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Languages/yaghnubi.htm (921 words)

	Yaghnobi language (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		'''Yaghnobi language''' - one of two living Northeastern Iranian languages, spoken in high valley of the Yaghnob river in Zarafshan area of Tajikistan, considered to be direct descendant of Sogdian by many linguists.
		Yaghnobi is used mostly for daily family communication, Tajik is used by Yaghnobi speakers as written language.
		Yaghnobi was used as a lexical basis of secret language in some tajik speaking communities outside Yaghnob river valley.
	yaghnobi-language.peernet.sk.cob-web.org:8888 (120 words)

	Persian Language
		Persian is a subgroup of West Iranian languages that include the closely related Persian languages of Dari and Tajik; the less closely related languages of Luri, Bakhtiari and Kumzari; and the non-Persian dialects of Fars Province.
		For example, it was an important language during the reign of the Moguls in Indian where knowledge of Persian was cultivated and encouraged; its use in the courts of Mogul India ended in 1837, banned by officials of the East Indian Company (British Colonialism).
		The Early Modern period of the language (ninth to thirteenth centuries), preserved in the literature of the Empire, is known as Classical Persian, due to the eminence and distinction of poets such as Roudaki, Ferdowsi, and Khayyam.
	www.iranchamber.com /literature/articles/persian_language.php (1384 words)

	yaghnobi_people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yaghnobi people (or Yagnobian people) is the name of a people who live in mountainous Tajikistan.
		The majority of those that remain on the plains tend to be assimilated with the Tajiks, as their children study in school in the Tajik language.
		One notable member of the Yaghnobi community in Tajikistan was Safarali Kenjayev, the former speaker of the Supreme Soviet.
	www.ratemydogs.com /wiki/?title=Yaghnobi_people (518 words)

	Pushto Language Profile
		Pushto is one of the national languages of Afghanistan (Dari Persian is the other), and the home language of Pushtuns living in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, and many Pushtuns living in Baluchistan (Iran and Pakistan).
		Indo-Iranian languages are spoken in a wide area stretching from portions of eastern Turkey and eastern Iraq to western India (see Crystal 1987 and Payne 1987).
		The variation in spelling of the language's name (Pashto, Pukhto, etc.) stems from the different pronunciations in the various dialects of the second consonant in the word; for example, it is a retroflex [sh] in the Kandahari dialect, and a palatal fricative in the Kabuli dialect.
	brain.com.pk /~charsadda/pakhtun/pushtolanguage.htm (1158 words)

	Sogdian language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was the language of trade in all of Central Asia (Transoxiana) and was the lingua franca of Chinese and Iranian traders.
		The language belongs to the Northeastern branch of Iranian languages.
		Only a dialect of Sogdian, called Yaghnobi language, has survived into the 21st century and is spoken by the mountain dwellers of the Yaghnob valley.
	sogdian-language.iqnaut.net (370 words)

	Iranian Languages Branch
		The languages are called Iranian because the largest members of the branch have been spoken on the Iranian plateau since ancient times.
		Modern Iranian languages may have descended from Middle Iranian languages that were spoken between 300 BC and 950 AD.
		For example, Balochi behaves like a Nominative language in the present tense but more like an Ergative-Absolutive language in the past tense, in that the subject of a transitive verb is marked with the oblique case instead of the nominative.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/february/IranianBranch.html (561 words)

	Persian (Farsi)
		Although Tajik is a variety of Eastern Persian, it has diverged from Persian as spoken in Afghanistan and Iran, because of its geopolitical isolation and the influence of Russian and neighboring Turkic languages such as Uzbek and Kyrghyz.
		Tajik is an inflected language, i.e., it adds prefixes and suffixes to roots to express grammatical categories and to form words.
		In 1989, with the growth in Tajik nationalism, a law was enacted declaring Tajik the state language, equating it with Persian, and calling for a gradual reintroduction of the Arabic alphabet.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/february/Tajik.html (1306 words)

	yourDictionary.com • Indo-European Language Families
		The first column of family stocks were originally the languages that developed directly from Proto-Indo-European.
		These languages became families by breaking up into dialects that became languages which themselves then produced dialects and languages, and so on and so forth.
		Ancient languages are listed under the heading "Family" and "Subfamilty" because they died out when other families and subfamilies were forming.
	www.yourdictionary.com /library/pietable.html (148 words)

	EASTERN IRANIAN LANGUAGES
		EASTERN IRANIAN LANGUAGES, term used to refer to a group of Iranian languages most of which are or were spoken in lands to the east of the present state of Persia.
		Thus Ossetic, an Eastern Iranian language, is spoken in the Caucasus, further west than many Western Iranian languages, while Baluchi (q.v.), a North-Western Iranian language, is spoken chiefly in Pakistan, in the south-eastern corner of the Iranophone area.
		However, the great majority of the Eastern Iranian languages have or had their main centers in areas to the east and north-east of Persia, in what are now Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v7/v7f6/v7f659.html (1336 words)

	The Pakhtu/Pashto Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pushto/Pakhtu is one of the East Iranian group of languages, which includes, for example, Ossete (North Ossetian, south Ossetian, Caucasus Soviet Socialist Republic) and Yaghnobi (Tajikistan).
		Indo-Iranian languages are spoken in a wide area stretching from portions of eastern Turkey and eastern Iraq to western India.
		The variation in spelling of the language's name (Pashto, Pukhtu, Pakhtu etc.) stems from the different pronunciations in the various dialects of the second consonant in the word; for example, it is a retroflex [sh] in the Kandahari dialect, and a palatal fricative in the Kabuli dialect.
	www.pakhtun.com /pakhtuLanguage.htm (990 words)

	Iranian Language Family
		Middle Persian was initially the language of the province of Pars (Persia), and a development of the Old Persian of the Achaemenid royal inscriptions or one of its close dialects.
		It was also taken as the language of artistic expression and science by the population of Central Asia and Muslim inhabitants of China, as well as the aristocratic classes of Ottoman Turkey.
		and Sivandi in Iran, Ossetic in Caucasia, Yaghnobi in Tajikistan, and Kumzari in Oman.
	www.iranologie.com /history/ilf.html (2828 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		Pashto and Dari (Afghan Persian/Farsi) are the official languages of Afghanistan.
		Pashto was declared the national language of the country in the beginning of Zahir Shah's reign, however, Dari has always been used for business and government transactions.
		Turkic languages (Uzbek and Turkmen) are spoken by about 11 per cent of the population.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/afghanistan/languages_afghnistan.cfm (1210 words)

	yaghnobi_language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		is a living Northeastern Iranian language (the only other living member being the Ossetic), and is spoken in high valley of the Yaghnob River in the Zarafshan area of Tajikistan by Yaghnobi people.
		It is considered to be direct descendant of Sogdian by many linguists.
		Yaghnobi is used mostly for daily family communication, while Tajik is used by Yaghnobi speakers for business and formal transactions.
	www.ratemydogs.com /wiki/?title=Yaghnobi_language (452 words)

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		Persian is the principal West Iranian Language and Pashto the principal East Iranian language.
		Although the languages in Afghanistan are written using adaptations of the Arabic alphabet, none is related to Arabic, which is a member of the Semitic language family, along with Hebrew, and competely different from either the Indo- European or the Altaic language families.
		Pashto was designated a national language of Afghanistan by the pashtuns in the various constitutions, and in the period of modernization, all non-pashto--speaking government workers were required to learn the language.
	www.freewebs.com /paktia_zormatai (1349 words)

	History of Pushto language
		Pashto is one of the East Iranian group of languages, which includes, for example, Ossete (North Ossetian, south Ossetian, Caucasus Soviet Socialist Republic) and Yaghnobi (Tajikistan).
		As the language of an Islamic people, Pashto also contains a high number of borrowings from Arabic; among educated speakers, the Arabic plurals of borrowed nouns are frequently maintained.
		In Afghanistan, Pashto is second in prestige to Dari, the Persian dialect spoken natively in the north and west.
	www.afghan-network.net /Ethnic-Groups/pashtu-history.html (976 words)

	Ossetic_language info here at en.after-gasoline-alley.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ossetic is the spoken literary expression of the Ossetes, a country continuing in the centroidal unit of the Caucasus constituting the fanatical population of the North-Ossetic ASSR, which attachs to to the Russian Federation, of the South-Ossetic Autonomous Oblast which attachs to to the Georgian Republic.
		Ossetic attachs to to the Northern subgroup of the Eastern-Iranian faction of the Indo-European extraction of languages.
		Ossetian, well-organized with Kurdish, Tati Talyshi, is unusual of the pre-eminent Iranian languages with a sizeable commonality of speakers in the Caucasus.
	en.after-gasoline-alley.info /Ossetic_language (1667 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ossetic or Ossetian (in Ossetic: or) is a language spoken in Ossetia, a region on the slopes of the Caucasus mountains on the borders of Russia and Georgia.
		Ossetic shares a plural formed by the suffix -ta, a feature it shares with Yaghnobi, Sarmatian and the now-extinct Sogdian; this is taken as evidence of a formerly wide-ranging Iranian-language dialect contiuum on the Central Asian steppe.
		The modern cases, except the nominative, are derived from a single surviving oblique case that was reanalyzed into seven new cases by Ossetic speakers.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Ossetic_language (1344 words)

	Urdu - ikiW
		Urdū (اُردو) is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed under Persian, Turkish, Pashto, Arabic, Hindi, and Sanskrit influence in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200–1800).
		Taken by itself, Urdū is approximately the twentieth most populous natively spoken language in the world, and is the national language of Pakistan as well as one of the 23 national languages of India.
		The primary differences between the two are that Standard Urdū is written in Nastaliq script and draws heavily on Persian and Arabic vocabulary, while standard Hindi is written in Devanāgarī and has supplemented some of its Persian and Arabic vocabulary with words from Sanskrit.
	urdu.ikiw.net /en/Urdu (201 words)

	Iranian Languages and Literatures (CAIS)
		Iranian (Aryan) languages are spoken in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Arran (republic of Azerbaijan), Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, China, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Russia and other scattered areas of the Caucasus Mountains.
		Major modern Iranian languages are New Persian, Kordi (Kurdish) and Pashto (Persian-Pashto), an official language of Afghanistan; and Tajik (Persian-Tajik), spoken in Tajikistan.
		All Iranian languages currently spoken show a simplification of the earlier sound systems and a preference for the use of auxiliary verbs in place of the complex verb conjugations of the ancient Iranian languages.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Languages/iranian_languages.htm (180 words)

	Tajikstan Encyclopedia Article @ CNAutomotive.com (CN Automotive) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This has not been completely detrimental though, as Tajikistan was known for its theater and famous novelists during the Soviet era.
		Among these writers were individuals who strove to purify the Tajik language by tying it in more with Dari and eliminating Russian words and Arabic words.
		The impact of Islam has grown in recent years, and was a strong bonding force during Tajikistan's fight against Soviet rule and during its civil war.
	www.cnautomotive.com /encyclopedia/Tajikstan (2186 words)

	SIL Bibliography: Language use
		Buth, Randall J. "Language use in the first century: Spoken Hebrew in a trilingual society in the time of Jesus."
		Language use and language maintenance among the Tharu of the Indo-Nepal tarai.
		Language use and attitudes among the Jambi Malays of Sumatra.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_subject.asp?code=LGU (431 words)

	Iranian language - ikiW
		The Iranian languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family with an estimated number of 150-200 million native speakers today.
		Together with the Indo-Aryan languages they form the Indo-Iranian languages group, a branch of Indo-European.
		With Avestan and Old Persian, the Iranian languages comprise two of the oldest recorded Indo-European languages (along with the Indic language Vedic Sanskrit, Greek, and Hittite).
	iranian-language.ikiw.net /en/Iranian_language (87 words)

	The Tajikistan Update - Cultural, Language, & Ethnicity
		While many of the ethnic Russians have fled Tajikistan during the last decade the Russian language is still spoken by much of the native population.
		Examples of the Pamir languages spoken in Tajikistan are: Shughni, Roshani, Vakhi, Iskhashimi, Sarikoli, Baratangi, Kufi, Yazgulemi, and Oroshori.
		In addition there is a community that speaks Yaghnobi, a descendants of the ancient Sughdian language, as well as small population of Pashto and Arabic speakers.
	www.angelfire.com /sd/tajikistanupdate/culture.html (1885 words)

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