Shughni is one of the Pamir languages

Pamir languages

The Pamir languages are a group of the Eastern Iranian languages, spoken by numerous people in the Pamir Mountains, primarily along the Panj River and its tributaries. This includes the Badakhshan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province of eastern Tajikistan...

 of the Southeastern Iranian language group. Its distribution is in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province

Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province

Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province is an autonomous, mountainous province in the east of Tajikistan. Located in the Pamir Mountains, it makes up 45% of the land area of the country but only 3% of the population....

 in Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

 and Badakhshan Province

Badakhshan Province

Badakhshan is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, consisting of 28 districts. It is located in the north-east of the country, between the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya. It is part of the Badakhshan region.-Geography:...

 in Afghanistan.

Shughni tends towards SOV word order, distinguishes a masculine and a feminine gender in nouns and some adjectives as well as the 3rd person singular of verbs. Shughni distinguishes between an absolute and a oblique case in its system of pronouns.

Vocabulary

Chart of Sounds in Shughni

Letter	English equivalent	Usage in Shugni
A/a	apple, angry	bad, akuniath, aram, anor
Aa/aa	Harvard, march	xhaab, daav, zamunaa, baad
Ai/ai	bite, fire	taiyor, arai, aiyuum, maile
B/b	big, able	biyor, balad, abor
Ch/ch	church, chair	chiiz, chiid, choi, chorik
D/d	dead, dried	daak, diidor, murd, darc
Dh/dh	this, mother	dhid, dhust, dhud, pidhid, podh
Dz/dz	buds, lads	dzulik, pindz, wixhidz, majhdzuunj
E/e	elephant, egg	elak, qate, qine, biide
Ee/ee	same as above but longer	tseem, teez, deer, Apreel
Ey/ey	aid, ancient	peydow, xheydow,
Ff/ff	fat, roof	fort, famtow, faand, boft
G/h	girl, big	gaap, gandaa, gardha, yiga
Gh/gh		ghaats, ghalat, bogh, shagh
I/i	big, lift	nist, yiwath, khirs, chis
Ii/ii	feet, beat	tiidow, miidow, shiintow, zhiiwj
J/j	jam, barge	jumla, jazo, majlis, ajab
Jh/jh		jhinik, saajh, majh, sipajh
K/k	book, kit	kitob, maak, tukmaa, kiinaa
Kh/kh	loch, Khorog	khaat, sakht, bakht, kharid
L/l	like, feel	lap, liing, tambal, balad
M/m	mouse, meet	mund, tamand, famtow, shaam
N/n	nut, mean	naan, qand, fanaa, baandak
O/o	pot, shop	oyandaa, ofarin, boft, nolaan
Oo/oo	boot, poodle	noor, joor, mood, moon
P/p	paint, top	parwiin, lap, pardhedow, pool
Q/q	Quran	qamoch, qand, nuqtaa, qiin
R/r	rabbit, rob	raang, tsarang, roosht, rukhsat
S/s	sit, miss	sarake, baas, kasal, safar
Sh/sh	shout, bush	shamol, maash, bashand, shogird
T/t	title, time	tavaar, turd, sust, chust
Th/th	think, moth	achath, khobath, aquniath, thiir
Ts/ts	blitz, fits	tsavor, buts, tsarang, xhats
U/u	look, should	duzd, mund, tuid, buts
Uu/uu	earn, fern	luuvd, uun, yuudand, okhiruun
V/v	vet, leave	viidow, yelav, vaz, virod
W/w	few, wait	chiidow, wiintow, boware, wazmin
Xh/xh		xheidow, xhats, tuxhna, duxhman
Y/y	yellow, yet	yordam, yelav, oyandaa, boyad
Z/z	zoo, blaze	zamiin, bozor, zardak, ziird
Zh/zh	pleasure, de ja vu	zholaa, zhiiwj, ghazhd, zhow

Literature

• Zarubin, I.I.
  Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin
  Ivan Ivanovich Zarubin was a Soviet specialist of Iranian languages, particularly Pamir languages.-Life:...
  
  . Shugnanskie teksty i slovar. Moskva : Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1960.

External links

• Ethnologue report for Shughni
• Shughni Language Page
• The Shughni Grammar Project