Sarikoli language

Sarikoli
تۇجىك زىڤ / سەرىقۇلى زىڤ[1]
Tujik ziv / Sarikhuli ziv
Тоҷик зив / Сариқоли зив
Native toChina
RegionPamir (Taxkorgan County)
EthnicitySarikolis
Native speakers
16,000 (2000)[2]
Uyghur Arabic alphabet (unofficial)[3]
Official status
Official language in
 China[4]
Language codes
ISO 639-3srh
Glottologsari1246
ELPSarikoli
Linguasphere58-ABD-eb
Xinjiang Province. Light blue are areas where Sarikoli is spoken.
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The Sarikoli language (also Sariqoli, Selekur, Sarikul, Sariqul, Sariköli) is a member of the Pamir subgroup of the Southeastern Iranian languages spoken by the Pamiris of Xinjiang, China. It is officially referred to in China as the "Tajik language", although it is different from the related Iranian language spoken in Tajikistan, which is a dialect of Persian.

  1. ^ Gao, Erqiang (高尔锵) (1996). 塔吉克汉词典 [Tajik-Chinese Dictionary] (in Simplified Chinese). Sichuan Nationalities Publishing House (四川民族出版社). ISBN 978-7-5409-1744-9.
  2. ^ Sarikoli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference juamjusi was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference de facto since china doesn't have official language(s) was invoked but never defined (see the help page).