Shughni language page

 

Shughni is an endangered Pamir language spoken in Tajikistan.   

 

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 University of Massachusetts,

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 Anderson)

 

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:

 

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 Walker on a Shughni sound file, open the file in the voice walker,

By clicking on File and opening the file as you would with a word processor.

 

article by Matthewson on Semantic Fieldwork

 

Notes on Case