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The Yazgulyam language (also Yazgulyami, Iazgulem, Yazgulam, natively yuzdami zevég, Tajik yazgulomi) is a member of the Pamir subgroup of the Iranian languages, spoken by ca. 4,000 native speakers (as of 1994) along the Yazgulyam River, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. Together with Shugni, it is classified as the Shugni-Yazgulami subgroup of the Pamir languages. Virtually all speakers are bilingual in the Tajik language.

The language was first recorded by Russian traveller G. Arandarenko in 1889, listing 34 Yazgulami words recorded in 1882. The language was described in greater detail by French linguist, R. Gauthiot in Notes sur le yazggoulami, dialecte iraniren des Confins du Pamir (1916).

The Yazgulyam people are an exception among the speakers of Pamir languages in that they do not adhere to Ismailism.

In 1954 the Yazgulami living on the mountain slopes were resettled, about 20% of them forcibly, to the Vakhsh valley, where they live dispersed among the Tadjiks, Uzbeks, Russians and other ethnic groups.

Phonology

The phonology of the Yazgulyam language differs from the basic "Shugni-Roshani" type its system of dorsal consonants: In addition to the velar and uvular stops g, k, q and fricatives x̌, γ̌, x, γ,, Yazgulami has a palatalized and a labialized series, transcribed as ḱ, ǵ (palatalized velars), k° g° x̌° (labialized velars, there is no labialized velar voiced fricative) and q° x° γ° (labialized uvulars). A significant number of labialized consonants etymologically correspond to Proto-Iranian *Cv or *Cu, e.g. x̌°arg < *hvaharā- "sister", while others are unrelated to Proto-Iranian v, e.g. sk°on < skana- "puppy".

This threefold system of articulation of dorsals has been compared typologically to the three reconstructed rows of dorsals in the Proto-Indo-European language. The polygenetic rise of the labialized series from the simpler Satem system of Proto-Iranian may also be seen as a parallel of the rise of the labiovelars within the Centum group.

Literature

Payne, John, "Pamir languages" in Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum ed. Schmitt (1989), 417–444.

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	The '''Yazgulyam''' ~~language~~ (also Yazgulyami, Iazgulem, Yazgulam, natively ''yuzdami zevég'', Tajik ''yazgulomi'') is a member of the [[Pamir languages\|Pamir]] subgroup of the [[Iranian languages]], spoken by ca. 4,000 native speakers (as of 1994) along the [[Yazgulyam River]], [[Gorno-Badakhshan]], [[Tajikistan]]. Together with [[Shugni]], it is classified as the Shugni-Yazgulami subgroup of the Pamir languages. Virtually all speakers are bilingual in the [[Tajik language]].		The '''Yazgulyam language''' (also Yazgulyami, Iazgulem, Yazgulam, natively ''yuzdami zevég'', Tajik ''yazgulomi'') is a member of the [[Pamir languages\|Pamir]] subgroup of the [[Iranian languages]], spoken by ca. 4,000 native speakers (as of 1994) along the [[Yazgulyam River]], [[Gorno-Badakhshan]], [[Tajikistan]]. Together with [[Shugni]], it is classified as the Shugni-Yazgulami subgroup of the Pamir languages. Virtually all speakers are bilingual in the [[Tajik language]].

	The language was first recorded by Russian traveller G. Arandarenko in [[1889]], listing 34 Yazgulami words recorded in 1882. The language was described in greater detail by French linguist, R. Gauthiot in ''Notes sur le yazggoulami, dialecte iraniren des Confins du Pamir'' ([[1916]]).		The language was first recorded by Russian traveller G. Arandarenko in [[1889]], listing 34 Yazgulami words recorded in 1882. The language was described in greater detail by French linguist, R. Gauthiot in ''Notes sur le yazggoulami, dialecte iraniren des Confins du Pamir'' ([[1916]]).