Munji language

E522471

The Munji language is an Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Munji people in Afghanistan’s remote Munjan Valley, closely related to the Yidgha language of Pakistan.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Munji language canonical 15

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Iranian language ⓘ
Iranian language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Yidgha language ⓘ
country Afghanistan ⓘ
endangeredStatus endangered language ⓘ
geographicProximityTo Yidgha-speaking areas of Pakistan ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Munjani ⓘ
Munjiwar ⓘ
hasCaseSystem case-marking on nouns ⓘ
hasContactWith Dari Persian ⓘ
linked to: Persian language

Pashto ⓘ
linked to: Pashto language
hasDialectContinuumWith Yidgha language ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup Munji people ⓘ
hasGenderSystem grammatical gender ⓘ
hasLinguisticRelation Yidgha language ⓘ
hasMorphologicalType fusional ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasSpeakerCommunityType mountain village communities ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV ⓘ
historicalAncestor Proto-Indo-European language ⓘ
linked to: Proto-Indo-European

Proto-Indo-Iranian language ⓘ
Proto-Iranian language ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Afghanistan ⓘ
ISO639-3 mnj ⓘ
languageBranch Indo-Iranian branch ⓘ
languageFamily Indo-European language family ⓘ
languageGroup Iranian group ⓘ
languageSubgroup Eastern Iranian subgroup ⓘ
linguisticArea Hindu Kush ⓘ
region Badakhshan region ⓘ
linked to: Badakhshan

northeastern Afghanistan ⓘ
script Arabic script ⓘ
sharesFeaturesWith other Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
other Pamir languages ⓘ
spokenBy Munji people ⓘ
spokenIn Afghanistan ⓘ
Munjan Valley ⓘ
spokenInValley Munjan Valley ⓘ
subfamilyOf Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
Iranian languages ⓘ
transmission primarily oral ⓘ
usedFor oral communication ⓘ
vitality severely endangered ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (15)

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

Pamir languages → hasMember → Munji language ⓘ
Yidgha → closelyRelatedTo → Munji language ⓘ
Yidgha → isMutuallyIntelligibleWith → Munji language ⓘ
Yidgha language → sharesIsoglossWith → Munji language ⓘ
Yidgha language → hasNeighborLanguage → Munji language ⓘ
Sanglechi language → neighboringLanguage → Munji language ⓘ
Pamiri peoples → speaks → Munji language ⓘ
Yidgha → closelyRelatedTo → Munji language ⓘ
subject linked to: Yudga
Yidgha → isMutuallyIntelligibleWith → Munji language ⓘ
subject linked to: Yudga
Yudgha → closelyRelatedTo → Munji language ⓘ
Munjan Valley → primaryLanguage → Munji language ⓘ
Munjan Valley → knownFor → Munji language ⓘ
Munjani → alternativeNameOf → Munji language ⓘ
Yidgha people → relatedLanguage → Munji language ⓘ
Munji people → language → Munji language ⓘ