Wakhi Language (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Wakhi is an Indo-European language in the branch of Eastern Iranian language family and is intimately related to other Southeastern Iranian languages (Pamir languages and Pashto).Wakhi is one of several languages that belong to the Pamir language group. A reflection of this is the fact that the Wakhi people are occasionally called Pamiris. The origin of this language is Wakhan in Afghanistan and is, according to sources, more than four thousand years old. This is spoken by the Ghalcha people of the Wakhan (sometimes spelt Vakhan) Corridor of Afghanistan, parts of Gilgit-Baltistan (the former NAs) of Pakistan, Gorno-Badkhshan (mountainous-Badakhshan, in Russian) region of Tajakistan, and Sinkiang/Zingiang of Chinese Turkistan); they keep the name 'Xik' (ethnic) and suffix it with 'wor'/'war' to denote their language as 'Xik-wor' themselves; the noun 'Xik' comes from 'oxik' (an inhabitant of 'Ox', for Wakhan, in Wakhi. There are other equivalents for the name Wakhi (Anglicised) or Wakhani (Arabic and Persian), Vakhantsy (Russian), Gojali/Gojo (Dingrik-wor/Shina).