Pamir languages

Pamir
Ghalchah (obsolete)
(ethnically defined)
Geographic
distribution		Pamir Mountains
EthnicityPamiris
Linguistic classificationIndo-European
Language codes
Glottologshug1237  (Shughni-Yazgulami)
yidg1239  (Yidgha-Munji)
sang1316  (Sanglechi-Ishkashimi)
wakh1245  (Wakhi)

The Pamir languages are an areal group of the Eastern Iranian languages, spoken by numerous people in the Pamir Mountains, primarily along the Panj River and its tributaries.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Pamir language family was sometimes referred to as the Ghalchah languages by western scholars.[1] The term Ghalchah is no longer used to refer to the Pamir languages or the native speakers of these languages.

  1. ^ In his 1892 work on the Avestan language Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson, The later Iranian languages, New Persian, Kurdish, Afghan, Ossetish, Baluchi, Ghalach and some minor modern dialects." Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams (1892). An Avesta grammar in comparison with Sanskrit and The Avestan alphabet and its transcription. Stuttgart: AMS Press. p. xxx.