Yagnobi

YAI

threatened

Alternate Names: Yaghnabi, Yaghnobi, Yaghnubi, Yagnabi, Yagnob, Yagnubi

Dialects: Eastern Yagnobi, Western Yagnobi.

Genealogy:

Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Iranian
Eastern
Northeastern

Demographics: 12,000 (2004 SIL).

Language Use: Also use Russian [rus] as literary language. Also use Tajiki [tgk] as literary language.

Language Development: Grammar.

Writing System: Cyrillic

Nation of Origin: Tajikistan

Other Comments: Were resettled in 1970s to Zafarabad in north Tajikistan on the border with Uzbekistan; changed from cool mountain valleys with water to irrigated desert plains. Muslim (Sunni).