| Pamir Kyrgyz | |
|---|---|
| پامیری قیرغیز | |
Pamiri Kyrgyz in Nastaliq
| |
| Native to | Pakistan, Afghanistan |
| Region | Chitral, Gojal, Wakhan |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2012)[1] |
| Arabic Script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
Pamir Kyrgyz (Kyrgyz: پامیری قیرغیزچه) is a dialect of the Kyrgyz language natively spoken in the Chitral district and Gojal ValleyofPakistan and Wakhan CorridorofAfghanistan.[2] It has been evolving into a distinct dialect of Kyrgyz due to its isolation.[3] The dialect is known by its speakers as Black Kyrgyz (کاره قیرغیز).[4]
Pamir Kyrgyz uses many loanwords from Dari, which unlike Kyrgyz from Kyrgyzstan, makes it hard to understand the language due to Kyrgyz from Kyrgyzstan using Russian loanwords.[5]
Literacy rate from the Kyrgyz of Pamir has increased, with many proposing an alphabet for it. The Agha Khan has started funding schools for the Pamir Kyrgyz in Afghanistan for Dari, Pashto, and their native Pamir Kyrgyz language.[6]
The Pamiri Kyrgyz dialect uses long and hard vowels unlike the Kyrgyz in Kyrgyzstan.[7]
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u | ɯ | y | u |
| Mid | e | ə | o | ø | ||
| Open | a | ɑ | ||||
| Labial | Dental/ alveolar |
Post- alveolar |
Dorsal | Uvular | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | q | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | ||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | |
| voiced | v | z | ||||
| Approximant | l | j | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
