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Ishkashimi is an Iranian language. Its distribution is in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in Tajikistan Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan and Chitral region of Pakistan.The total number of speakers is c. 2500 most of them are now dispersed throughout Tajikistan and Russia. About 400 still live in the village of Ryn on the border with Afghanistan near the town of Ishkoshim.Ishkashimi is closely related to Zebaki and Sanglechi (in Afghanistan).

ISO 639-3 code
isk
family
Indo-Iranian languages, Eastern Iranian languages, Pamir languages, Iranian languages
spoken in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan

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