Oroshori (also known as Roshorvi) is a dialect of
Shughni, a
Pamiri language spoken in the
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region
Gorno-Badakhshan, officially the Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region,, abbr. / is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, in the Pamir Mountains. It makes up nearly forty-five percent of the country's land area, but only two percen ...
in
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
as well as 267 speakers in
Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province
Badakhshan Province (Persian/ Uzbek: , ''Badaxšān'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country. It is bordered by Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan in the north and the Pakistani regions of Lower ...
. It is similar to other dialects of Shughni such as
Rushani and
Bartangi. Oroshori contains many loanwords from
Sarikoli as well as
Kyrgyz.
References
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Eastern Iranian languages
Badakhshan Province
Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region