Alternate Names: Yaghnabi, Yaghnobi, Yaghnubi, Yagnabi, Yagnob, Yagnubi
Dialects: Eastern Yagnobi, Western Yagnobi.
Genealogy:
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).