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== Subgroups == ===Shughni–Yazgulami branch=== The [[Shughni language|Shughni]], [[Sarikoli language|Sarikoli]], and [[Yazghulami language|Yazgulyam]] languages belong to the Shughni-Yazgulami branch. There are about 75,000 speakers of languages in this family in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Tajikistan]] (including the dialects of [[Rushani language|Rushani]], [[Bartangi language|Bartangi]], [[Oroshori dialect|Oroshori]], [[Khufi language|Khufi]], and [[Shughni language|Shughni]]). In 1982, there were about 20,000 speakers of Sarikoli in the [[Sarikol Valley]] located in the [[Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County]] in [[Xinjiang]] Province, [[China]]. Shughni and Sarikoli are not mutually intelligible. In 1994, there were 4000 speakers of Yazgulyam along the [[Yazgulyam River]] in [[Tajikistan]]. Yazgulyam is not written. The [[Vanji language]] was spoken in the [[Vanj]] river valley in the [[Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region]] in [[Tajikistan]], and was related to [[Yazgulyam language|Yazgulyam]]. In the 19th century, the region was forcibly annexed to the [[Bukharan Emirate]] and a violent assimilation campaign was undertaken. By the end of the 19th century the Vanji language had disappeared, displaced by [[Tajik language|Tajik Persian]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2024|reason=This is a pretty big claim, considering it's describing genocide in all but name.}} Most language speakers and others in Tajikistan refer to languages in this group as 'Pamirski" or 'Pamir'. (e.g. "I can speak Pamir, Ishkashem and Wakhi") ===Munji–Yidgha branch=== The [[Munji language|Munji]] and [[Yidgha language|Yidgha]] languages are closely related.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} There are about 6,000 speakers of [[Yidgha language|Yidgha]] in Upper [[Lotkoh]] Valley recorded in the former [[Chitral District|Chitral district]] of [[Pakistan]], and in 2008 there were around 5,300 speakers of [[Munji language|Munji]] mainly in the Mamalgha and Munjan valleys in the [[Kuran wa Munjan District|Kuran wa Munjan district]] of the [[Badakhshan Province|Badakhshan province]] in northeastern [[Afghanistan]]. Munji-Yidgha shares with [[Bactrian language|Bactrian]] a development *ð > {{IPA|/l/}}, absent from the other three Pamir groups. The extinct [[Sarghulami]] language of [[Badakhshan Province|Badakhshan]] is thought to be of the Munji-Yidgha branch. ===Sanglechi–Ishkashimi=== There are about 2,500 speakers of [[Sanglechi language|Sanglechi]] and [[Ishkashimi language|Ishkashmi]] in [[Afghanistan]] and [[Tajikistan]] respectively; they are not written languages. ===[[Wakhi language|Wakhi]]=== There are around 58,000 speakers of the [[Wakhi language]] in [[Afghanistan]], [[Tajikistan]], [[China]], [[Pakistan]], and [[Russia]].
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