What is Sarikoli language?
{{Infobox language | name = Sarikoli | nativename = ''{{transl|srh|tujik ziv}}'' | states = [[China]], [[Pakistan]] | speakers = 16,000 | date = 2000 | ethnicity = [[Pamiri people]] | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] | fam3 = [[Iranian languages|Iranian]] | fam4 = [[Eastern Iranian languages|Eastern]] | fam5 = [[Southeastern Iranian languages|Southeastern]] | fam6 = [[Pamir languages|Pamir]] | script = [[Arabic script|Arabic]] | iso3 = srh | lingua = 58-ABD-eb | map = Sarikoli Language in Xinjiang.png | mapcaption = [[Xinjiang]] province. Light blue are areas where Sarikoli is spoken. }} The '''Sarikoli language''' (also '''Selekur''', '''Sarikul''', '''Sariqul''', '''Sariköli''') is an indigenous [[Pamir languages|Pamiri language]] spoken by the [[Pamiri people]] in [[Xinjiang]], [[China]] and northern [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sarikoli {{!}} Ethnologue Free|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/srh/|access-date=2024-05-19|website=Ethnologue (Free All)|language=en}}</ref> It is an [[endangered language]] spoken by only 16,000 people.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Aziz|first=Muhammad Abdul|last2=Ullah|first2=Zahid|last3=Adnan|first3=Muhammad|last4=Sõukand|first4=Renata|last5=Pieroni|first5=Andrea|date=2022|title=Plant Use Adaptation in Pamir: Sarikoli Foraging in the Wakhan Area, Northern Pakistan|url=https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/11/10/1543|journal=Biology|language=en|volume=11|issue=10|pages=1543|doi=10.3390/biology11101543|issn=2079-7737}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Languages of China}} {{Languages of Pakistan}} [[Category:Pamiri languages]] [[Category:Languages of China]] [[Category:Languages of Gilgit-Baltistan]] [[Category:Iranian languages]] {{Asia-stub}}