Parya language

Parya
Парйа
Native toTajikistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan
RegionGissar Valley, Surkhandarya basin
Native speakers
2,600 (2008–2017)[1]
Tajikistan: 1,600 (2017)[1]
Uzbekistan: 1,000 (2008)[1]
Afghanistan: Extinct (no date)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3paq
Glottologpary1242
ELPParya

Parya (Tajik alphabet: Парйа) is an isolated Central Indo-Aryan language spoken in the border region between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. There are several thousand speakers worldwide.

  1. ^ a b c d Parya at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon