Langenesis

Indo-European family

Yaghnobi

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Yaghnobi (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → Proto-Iranian → Sogdian → Yaghnobi.

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Speakers
12K (12,000)
ISO 639-3
yai

Spoken in the Yaghnob valley of Tajikistan; the only surviving descendant of a Sogdian dialect. Endangered.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Iranianc. 1,800 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Sogdianc. 400 BCE – 1000 CE
  5. Yaghnobic. 1000 CE – today

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