Sarikoli
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English
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[edit]Sarikoli
- An Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks of China.
- 1981, Bernard Comrie, The Languages of the Soviet Union[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 158:
- Iranian languages are at present spoken across a wide belt of territory stretching from eastern Turkey (Kurdish) to the Sinkiang province of China (Sarikoli) and the shores of the Arabian Sea in western Pakistan (Beludzh).
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Noun
[edit]Sarikoli (plural Sarikoli or Sarikolis)
- A member of a subgroup of the Pamiris that speaks the Sarikoli language.
- 1998, Raphe H. Magnus, Eden Naby, Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid[2], Westview Press, →ISBN, page 5:
- The native inhabitants of the Wakhan extend as well into both neighboring areas; that is, the Wakhi, an Iranian (not Persian) linguistic group, dwell outside Afghan borders in close proximity to similar groups, such as the Ishkashimi, the Sarikoli, and others.