About pamiri.online
Pamiri.online is a project dedicated to the study of Pamir languages. Our objectives encompass the development of digital language resources for studying these languages and their application in our research on grammar and phonetics. Currently, we offer online dictionaries for several Pamir languages, including Shughni, Khufi, Rushani, Bartangi, Wakhi, and Sarikoli. Additionally, our platform provides an online morphological analyzer and a corpus for the Shughni language. Please note that these resources are based on sources written in Russian, requiring some knowledge of the language or the use of online translators. Moreover, we host the research seminar on Iranian languages, where professional linguists and linguistics students present the results of their research in Iranian languages and related fields.
Citing the project
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Acknowledgements
The online dictionary of Shughni was created as part of projects Computational and Linguistic Resources for the Shughni Language (2020–2021) and Computational and Corpus Instruments for Iranian Studies (2021–2022), which were supported by the Faculty of Humanities, HSE University. In 2023, we continued to digitize dictionaries of Pamir languages with the support of Linguistic Convergence Laboratory.
Thanks to Umed Kalandarov for helping to cover the costs of website hosting in 2022–2023.
We are grateful to the University of Central Asia for supporting our fieldwork in Khorugh, Tajikistan.
Team
Elena Armand
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Artyom Badeev
Research Assistant at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Section of the Iranian Languages; Research Assistant at Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute.
Member of the editorial board of the Indo-Iranian Languages journal.
Research interests: Pamir languages, Old Iranian languages, typology, field linguistics, deixis, demonstratives, gender, indefinite pronouns, lexicography, language contacts.
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Sofya Glavatskikh
Undergraduate student at the School of Linguistics, HSE University.
Interests: morphology, grammatical semantics, grammaticalization, sociolinguistics, typology of grammatical categories, linguistic typology.
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Yury Makarov
Yury is a junior researcher at the Section of Typology at the Institute of Linguistics, RAS and a research fellow at Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, RAS. He administers pamiri.online and organises the research seminar on Iranian languages. Since 2024, Yury has been a member of the editorial board of the "Indo-Iranian Languages" journal.
Areas of interest: phonetics, phonological typology, online lexicography, Iranian languages, Pamir languages, digital language resources.
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Maks Melenchenko
Developer of the morphological analyzer, the orthography converter and keyboard layouts for the Shughni alphabet. Research assistant at the International Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE.
Research interests in Shughni: evidentiality, tense, aspect, modality, narratives, complex verbs, coordination, verbal morphology, syntax, writing system.
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Dmitry Novokshanov
MA student at HSE University, Moscow. Shughni corpus developer.
Areas of interest: grammar of Pamir languages, corpus linguistics, Iranian languages and literature.
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Polina Padalka
Research assistant at International Linguistic Convergence Laboratory. Polina is responsible for glossing Shughni oral texts and their uploading to the Shughni corpus. She also conducts research in case relations expression in Pamir languages.
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Vladimir Plungian
Deputy Director and Head of the Department of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Poetics at the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences);
Head of the Section of Typology at the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences);
Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Chief Editor of the journal "Voprosy Jazykoznanija" ("Topics in the Study of Language").
Main research interests: general morphology, typology of grammatical categories, corpus linguistics, field linguistics; verse theory and metrics.
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Ekaterina Rakhilina
Professor and Head of the School of Linguistics at HSE University, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Culture of Russian Speech at the V. V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, member of the editorial board of the journal "Voprosy Jazykoznanija", member of the expert council of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in Philology and Art Studies.
Areas of interest: semantics, lexicology, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, lexical typology, history of the Russian language.
Daria Ryzhova
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Sofia Sedunova
Undergraduate student at the School of Linguistics, HSE University. Sofia glosses Shughni oral texts for their subsequent uploading to the Shughni language corpus.
Areas of interest: phonetics, phonological typology, Iranian languages, Pamir languages.
Alexander Sergienko
PhD student of Université Paris Cité / Masaryk university / HSE University
Research interests: negation, Pamiri languages, formal morphology, ergativity
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Daria Chistiakova
Head of the student project on Shughni vocabulary at HSE University.
Areas of interest: morphology, syntax, linguistic typology, lexical typology, Iranian languages, Pamir languages.
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Anastasia Shavrina
Intern researcher at the Linguistic Laboratory of Corpus Studies
Projects: Crowdsourcing for Error Correction in L2 Writing
Research interests: oriental languages, artificial intelligence, corpus linguistics, syntax
Boris Yakubson
Student at the School of Linguistics at HSE University. Assistant researcher at the International Linguistic Convergence Laboratory at HSE University.
Areas of interest: linguistic typology, general morphology, typology of grammatical categories, deixis
Personal web pageLanguages
Shughni
The Shughni language belongs to the Eastern Iranian group within the Indo-European language family. It is spoken in the east of Tajikistan and the northeast of Afghanistan and is not only the language of the Shughni people but also, according to some researchers, the lingua franca of the Pamir peoples. Prof D. I. Edelman estimates that there are around 100,000 speakers of Shughni. On this website, users can make queries within the digital version of the Shughni-Russian dictionary by D. Karamshoev and also by I. I. Zarubin as well as explore entries created by the members of our research project.
Rushani
The language is represented by the digitized version of V. S. Sokolova's 'Rushani and Khufi texts and dictionary.'
Khufi
The language is represented by the digitized version of V. S. Sokolova's 'Rushani and Khufi texts and dictionary.'
Tools available
Online dictionary
The dictionary enables users to search through a collection of dictionaries featuring various Pamir languages, currently represented by Shughni, Rushani, and Khufi (with new languages to be added soon). This compilation includes digitized dictionaries (as mentioned above) and entries created by our project.
Morphological analyzer
The morphological analyzer splits words into morphemes and glosses them, that is, assigns labels for their grammatical and lexical meaning. This allows one to perform automatic grammatical analysis of large text corpora.
Corpus
A corpus is a collection of annotated texts that allows users to make search queries within grammatical features, morphemes, words and their combinations, translations, etc. In addition to written texts, there are transcribed oral stories aligned with audio files. The corpus operates on the Tsakorpus platform developed by Timofey Arkhangelsky.
Orthography converter
The orthography converter translates a text in Shughni from the most common writing systems to the Latin orthography adopted by the project. This simplifies the study of written texts with extremely varied orthographies.
Other
Russian-English-Shughni phrasebook
In April 2021, the first version of the Russian-English-Shughni phrasebook by A. A. Sergienko was published. The PDF version is available on this page.