Language Maintenance Among the Parya of Tajikistan
Domain Of Use 3
Used mainly in the home and/or with family, but remains the primary language of these domains for many community members.
Transmission -1
All members of the community, including children, speak the language.
Speakers
Location and Context
"The Parya people are an ethnolinguistic community living in scattered villages and towns along the
Hisor Valley of western Tajikistan, further west in the upper Surkhandarya Valley (which is a continuation
of the Hisor Valley) of Uzbekistan and in the Kunduz region of Afghanistan... In Tajikistan, the largest Parya
communities are found in the villages of Afghonobod, Qalai Hisor, Pravda Vostok, Boloi Kanal, and
Kolkhozi Leninism in the Hisor administrative region, in the villages of Qahramon and Kolkhozi Moskva
in the Shahrinav administrative region, and in the villages of Javrat and Okhtosh in the Tursunzoda
administrative region."
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both Tajik and Uzbek speakers, the villages towards the east of the Hisor Valley being ethnically and
linguistically Tajik, while further west, towards the border with Uzbekistan, the majority of inhabitants are
ethnically and linguistically Uzbek... In work domains, Tajik or Uzbek predominate."