Khufi

Facts

  • Language: Khufi
  • Alternate names: Khuf, Chuf
  • Language code: sgh-khu
  • Language family: Indo-European; Indo-Iranian; Iranian; Eastern Iranian (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: ~2,380
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script:

More information:

    The Khufi language is one of the Iranian languages of the Indo-European language group, belonging to the northern group of the Pamir languages. The Roshani language is the closest related language to Khufi and some authors consider Khufi to be a dialect of Roshani. The divergences in their vocabularies are rare and inessential; the basic differences lie in the phonetics. Of importance is, however, that the Khufis consider themselves a separate people.