Bartangi
Yorkville +1Community Profile: In New York today there may be as many as 300 Pamiris from the Gorno-Badakhshan region in southeastern Tajikistan, of whom all are Ismailis and the majority are Shughni speakers from in and around the regional capital of Khorog, though many came via Dushanbe. Small numbers also speak Rushani, Bartangi, Wakhi, and Ishkashimi. The first Pamiris arrived in NYC around 30 years ago, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and in the wake of Tajikistan’s Civil War in the 1990s.
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artangi is spoken by several thousand ethnic Bartang people, principally in the Bartang Valley within the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, in the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan. Classified as belonging to the Pamir branch of the Eastern Iranian languages, Bartangi is sometimes seen as a dialect of Shughni. Within the larger Pamiri community in New York, for which the Ismaili Jamatkhana is the largest and most significant gathering place (together with other non-Pamiri Ismailis), there are only a handful of Bartangi speakers. The Endangered Language Alliance has worked with two who live in Manhattan. Read more here.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.