UK linguists, Shughni scholars work to save spoken language (fwd link)

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Posted on Wed, Jul. 30, 2008

UK linguists, Shughni scholars work to save spoken language

By David Wheeler
Herald-Leader Staff Writer

Imagine a world in which your native language is spoken by a population about
one-fifth the size of Lexington.

Imagine, also, that your language is not taught in schools, broadcast over the
airwaves or preserved in literature. And one by one, the words of your language
are being replaced by the words of a more dominant language in the region.

Such is the predicament for the Shughni people, who speak a minority language in
the Pamir Mountains of eastern Tajikistan.

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