Shughni language page
Shughni is an endangered Pamir language spoken in
Ethnologue entry for Shughni Wikipedia entry for Shughni
This page contains Shughni language information and audio samples collected in the spring term of 2007
in connection with Ling 404, an undergraduate field
methods course at the
under the direction of Ellen Woolford.
Our Shughni Language Consultant: Amina
Davlatshoeva
email: aminads at educ.umass.edu
Download the Swadish List to help you think of words that are more likely to be native to a language.
Download an IPA font to install on your computer.
To use this font in Word, pull down Insert and click Symbol and look for the IPA font.
Click it and a chart pops up. Click on the symbol you want, then click insert.
Go to the UCLA phonetics chart to click on and hear IPA symbols
Our Preliminary Descriptions of Aspects of
Shughni Grammar:
Shughni Vowels and Consonants (Compiled by James Arno)
Shughni Dictionary (Compiled by Tea Mancino)
Shughni Word Order (Compiled by Sarah Occhino)
The
Particle Um (Compiled by Ginny
Shughni Verbs and Tense (Compiled by Mayumi Oiwa)
Wh-Words and Questions in Shughni (Compiled by Sarah R. Watsky)
Shughni Binding (Compiled by Greg Griffith)
Pronoun Forms and Case in Shughni (Compiled by Lisa Steventon)
Literature on
Pamir Languages by John Payne (A scanned pdf of this article is available at the link below, along with our Shughni sound files)
Shughni
Language Samples:
(click to get to all Shughni sound files)
To download a sound file to your computer, right click on the sound file
name on the index page
that the above link takes you to, then click on ‘Save Target As’.
Download the Voice Walker transcriber
To use the Voice
By clicking on File and opening the file as you would with a word
processor.
article by Matthewson on Semantic Fieldwork