Site Details

X̌ik

Wakhi
Bensonhurst +1
Southern AsiaPakistan flagPakistanTajikistan flagTajikistanPamiriGilgit-Baltistan
Community 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.
Read more
W

ith approximately 40,000 speakers worldwide, Wakhi is a language of the Pamir mountains, spoken by small populations in adjacent, remote regions of Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and China. In New York, there are some six or seven Wakhi families from the Hunza area of Pakistan and a handful of Wakhis from the Pamir region of Tajikistan. All maintain some connection with the Ismaili community centered on the jamatkhana, or religious center, on Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens. Wakhi speaker Husniya Khujamyorova, originally from Murghab (Tajikistan) but now living in Brooklyn, has worked extensively on her language and other Pamiri languages with the Endangered Language Alliance since 2010, including fieldwork in New York, Tajikistan, and China. The results include a large set of recordings, a growing dictionary, a set of older materials digitized, and a planned future series of children's books. Read more here.

Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.
SearchExploreDataCensusInfo

© Mapbox © OpenStreetMap Improve this map

X̌ik

Wakhi

Data

Search
Local community data
View in map
County
Language
Endonym
World Region
Country
Global Speakers
Language Family
Video
Audio
Location
Size
Status
Filter
Filter
Filter
Filter
Filter
Filter
​
​
No communities found. Try fewer criteria or click the "Clear filters" button to reset the table.

Rows per page:

20 rows

0-0 of 0

0-0 of 0
Press space bar to start a drag. When dragging you can use the arrow keys to move the item around and escape to cancel. Some screen readers may require you to be in focus mode or to use your pass through key

An urban language map

Welcome to Languages of New York City, a free and interactive digital map of the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolitan area.

All data, unless otherwise specified, is from the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA), based on information from communities, speakers, and other sources.

The map is a work in progress and a partial snapshot, focused on significant sites for Indigenous, minority, and endangered languages. Larger languages are represented selectively. To protect the privacy of speakers, some locations are slightly altered. Social media users, note that LANGUAGEMAP.NYC works best in a separate browser. We apologize that the map may not be fully accessible to all users, including the visually impaired.

This map was created by the Mapping Linguistic Diversity team, with core support from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the Endangered Language Alliance. Please send feedback!

By continuing I acknowledge that I have read and accept the above information.