Munji

E230686

Munji is a lesser-known Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Munji people in the remote Munjan Valley of northeastern Afghanistan.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Munji canonical 10

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language ⓘ
Iranian language ⓘ
language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Yidgha ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
country Afghanistan ⓘ
endangeredStatus definitely endangered ⓘ
ethnicGroup Munji people ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Munjani ⓘ
Munjaniwar ⓘ
linked to: Munjani

Munjī ⓘ
linked to: Munjani
hasCaseSystem multiple grammatical cases ⓘ
hasGenderSystem grammatical gender ⓘ
hasGlottocode munj1242 ⓘ
hasISO6393Code mnj ⓘ
hasLinguisticTypology postpositional language ⓘ
subject–object–verb word order ⓘ
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic ⓘ
Dari Persian ⓘ
linked to: Persian language

Pashto ⓘ
linked to: Pashto language
hasMorphologyType fusional ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakers a few thousand ⓘ
hasNumberSystem singular and plural ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticSituation mainly oral with limited written use ⓘ
hasTenseAspectSystem past vs non-past distinction ⓘ
hasVitalityTrend declining intergenerational transmission ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Afghanistan ⓘ
isSpokenInValleyOf Munjan River NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageFamily Eastern Iranian ⓘ
Iranian ⓘ
linked to: Iranian languages
linguisticBranch Eastern Iranian ⓘ
locatedInMountainRange Hindu Kush ⓘ
region northeastern Afghanistan ⓘ
riskFactor geographic isolation ⓘ
language shift to Dari Persian ⓘ
small speaker population ⓘ
spokenBy Munji people ⓘ
spokenIn Afghanistan ⓘ
Badakhshan Province ⓘ
Munjan Valley ⓘ
subclassOf Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
Iranian languages ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
linked to: Arabic alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.