Oroshori (also known as Roshorvi) is a dialect of Shughni, a Pamiri language spoken in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan as well as 267 speakers in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province.[3][4] It is similar to other dialects of Shughni such as Rushani and Bartangi.[5] Oroshori contains many loanwords from Sarikoli[6] as well as Kyrgyz.[7]
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Oroshori (also known as Roshorvi) is a dialect of Shughni, a Pamiri language spoken in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan as well as...
put the population of the Oroshoris at around 2,000. The Oroshori language is a dialect of Shughni. Linguistically, Oroshori has close affinities towards...
as a dialect of Shughni due to Afghanistan Rushani speakers living in the Sheghnan district of Badakhshan Province. Rushani, Bartangi, Oroshori (Roshorvi)...
this family in Afghanistan and Tajikistan (including the dialects of Rushani, Bartangi, Oroshori, Khufi, and Shughni). In 1982, there were about 20,000...
or Oroshori sharing many grammatical and vocabulary similarity with all of them especially with Shughni and thus some linguists consider it a dialect of...
(dialects: Northern, Southern, Central, and others) Wanetsi Pamir languages North Pamir Old Wanji (Vanji)† Yazgulami Shughni Shughni proper Oroshori Roshani...
of Bartangi. Bartangi is most similar to Rushani and Oroshori, two neighboring Shughni dialects. Features that distinguish them include the form of the...
largest of the Pamiri languages and contains many dialects including Rushani, Bartangri, and Oroshori. Shughni at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Windfuhr...
empires centered in Iran (including the Safavids) re-established a modern dialect of Persian as the official language spoken throughout much of what is today...
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