Areas populated by Yaghnobi speakers in Tajikistan September 18, 2009
Posted by lubossekk in Central Asia, Endangered Languages, Tajikistan, Yaghnobi, language documentation, languages.add a comment
Main areas populated by Yaghnobi speakers in Tajikistan
Aspects of Yaghnobi Grammar – Thesis Finished! July 21, 2008
Posted by Bahrom in Endangered Languages, Linguistics, Orthography, Syntax, Tajikistan, Yaghnobi.Tags: East Iranian, language documentation, Morphology, Morphosyntax, Phonology, Sogdian, Syntax, Yagnobi
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In December of last year I submitted my thesis on Yaghnobi grammar to the graduate school of the University of Oregon. After serveral rounds of review and revision, the thesis was accepted. Printed copies are available in the U of O Knight Library and the Linguistics departmentLibrary. I have also uploaded a down-loadable copy to this blog. Many thanks for all the critique, suggestions, and comments. I have incorporated all of your feedback in one way or another to make this a much better description of Yaghnobi grammar. (more…)
Is Yaghnobi an Endangered Language? April 23, 2007
Posted by Bahrom in Endangered Languages, Linguistics, Tajikistan, Yaghnobi.Tags: language change, minority language, minority people group, Tajikistan, Yagnobi, YAI
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The Yaghnobi language is classified as endangered in the UNESCO Red Book of endangered languages. However, an SIL team who conducted a survey of the Yaghnobi language during 2003 and 2004 (Paul, et. al. 2005) concluded that the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Yaghnobi language is strong. Why the differing assessments?
