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The Wakhi belong to the Pamirian language group. The origin of this language is Wakhan, an area divided between extreme northeast of Afghanistan and Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan. The Wakhi live in four different countries: Northern Areas of Pakistan, Northern Afghanistan, Tajikistan and China. The exact population of Wakhies is not known however, roughly it is estimated as around 40,000 to 50,000. Europeans first heard about the Wakhs at the beginning of the last century, when A. Burnes in his travel journal Reise nach und in Bokhara (Weimar 1835), published some words in the Wakhi language. Considerably more complete information comes from 1876, when R. Shaw published excerpts of Wakhi texts, a short survey of grammar and a dictionary: On the Ghalchah Languages (Wakhi and Sarikoli) -- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1876. This scholarly treatment has a profound influence even today. Shaw traveled about in the areas of the dialects of the Wakhi language in China, on the territory of the present-day Uighur autonomous region in Xinjiang. |
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