Khufi | |
Nativename: | Xuf ziv |
States: | Tajikistan |
Speakers: | 800 |
Date: | 1990 |
Familycolor: | Indo-European |
Fam2: | Indo-Iranian |
Fam3: | Iranian |
Fam4: | Eastern |
Fam5: | Shugni–Yazgulami |
Fam6: | Shughnani |
Glotto: | khuf1238 |
Glottorefname: | Khufi |
Khufi is a Pamir language spoken in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. It is closely related to Shughni, and is traditionally considered a dialect of it, but is quite distinct. It is spoken in the villages of Khuf and Pastkhuf in the Khufdara River gorge, a right-hand tributary of Panj that descends from the Rushan Range south of the Bartang River and the town of Rushan.