Editing Pamir languages (section)

{{short description|Areal group of Eastern Iranian languages}}
{{Infobox language family
| name          = Pamir
| acceptance    = ethnically defined
| region        = [[Pamir Mountains]]
| familycolor   = Indo-European
| fam2          = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
| fam3          = [[Iranian languages|Iranian]]
| fam4          = [[Eastern Iranian languages|Eastern]]
| fam5          = [[Eastern Iranian languages|Southeastern]]
| glotto        = shug1237
| glottoname    = Shughni-Yazgulami
| glotto2       = yidg1239
| glottoname2   = Yidgha-Munji
| glotto3       = sang1316
| glottoname3   = Sanglechi-Ishkashimi
| glotto4       = wakh1245
| glottoname4   = Wakhi
| ancestor      = 
| glottorefname = 
| notes         = 
| ethnicity     = [[Pamiris]]
| altname       = Ghalchah (obsolete)
}}

The '''Pamir languages''' are an [[areal features|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.<ref name="avja">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." {{cite book |title=An Avesta grammar in comparison with Sanskrit and The Avestan alphabet and its transcription |last=Jackson |first=Abraham Valentine Williams  |year=1892 |publisher=AMS Press |location=[[Stuttgart]] |page=xxx |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zboIAAAAQAAJ&q=Ghalcha&pg=PA38 }}'''</ref> The term Ghalchah is no longer used to refer to the Pamir languages or the native speakers of these languages.