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25-578: Gircha ( Girča wakhi , گرچہ Urdu ) is a village in the Gojal Tehsil of Hunza in the Gilgit Baltistan region of Pakistan . It is one of the oldest Wakhi villages of upper Gojal Hunza , settled by Bobo e Sufi, who was the first man to settle in the region and the ancestor of present wakhis. The word "Gircha" is considered to come from Grich which means a hut near spring water. An alternative theory supposes that Gircha comes from

50-938: A more significant national/regional language, remoteness, and political instability, no one orthographic standard has managed to rise to the level of a singular unifying writing system. The Perso-Arabic script for the Wakhi language has been derived from the Persian alphabet used in Afghanistan . However, there are sounds in Wakhi that are not found in Persian. Here, two diverging conventions have emerged, one in Afghanistan and another in Pakistan (and Pakistani-controlled Gilgit-Baltistan ). Pashto has inspired letters in Afghanistan to represent missing sounds in Wakhi, especially

75-801: Is a high-altitude mountain valley nestled in the Hindu Kush mountain range, located in the northern region of the Gupis-Yasin District within Gilgit-Baltistan . The valley is situated approximately 148 kilometers (92 miles) from the city of Gilgit, which serves as the capital of Gilgit-Baltistan. Within the valley's territory lies Yasin Tehsil , an administrative subdivision of the region. Despite its sparse population, Yasin Valley has held strategic importance historically. This

100-711: Is also spoken in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County , in Xinjiang of China, mainly in the township of Dafdar . There are approximately 21,000 Wakhi in Russia , Most of them have migrated from Tajikistan and Afghanistan . There are some Wakhi villages in Turkey in the eastern regions, where they have migrated from Afghanistan in 1979 during the Afghan and Russian war . Traditionally, Wakhi

125-606: Is also widely understood. The majority of the people in Yasin are Ismailis , who lead their lives according to the Islamic principles more concerned with the imam of the time. Currently Aga Khan IV is the imam and spiritual leader of the Ismailis. However, other branches of both as Sunni and Shia Islam also live in Yasin. Ethnically, the people of Yasin are of Burusho origin; however, there are some migrants from different parts of

150-752: Is due to the fact that it leads to a high mountain pass leading to the Yarkhun Valley and subsequently to the Broghil Pass in Chitral . These passes facilitate connectivity with the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan and further to Tajikistan . Yasin Valley served as the administrative center of Worshigum, which was under the suzerainty of the Mehtars rulers who emerged from Chitral. The Mehtars of Yasin were great warriors and fought against

175-645: Is registered with the Government of Pakistan and collaborates with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Lok Virsa Pakistan. The Association is working to preserve the Wakhi language and culture and document their poetry and music . Radio Pakistan Gilgit relays the Wakhi radio programme "Sadoyah Boomy Dunyo", the voice of the roof of the world. The Wakhi Cultural Association has arranged more than twenty programmes since 1984, which include cultural shows, musical nights, and large-scale musical festivals with

200-608: Is the more common script, in Pakistan, similar with Urdu and other orthographies of Northern Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Gilgit-Baltistan , Nastaliq is the more common script. Notes : When Wakhi is written in Cyrillic, the sounds are usually represented by these letters: A Latin alphabet, which in some variants includes Cyrillic and Greek letters, was developed in 1953 by I.I. Zaroubine and V. S. Sokolova, and further developed by A.L Grünberg and I.M Stéblinn-Kamensky in

225-818: The Kingdom of Khotan . The Wakhi people are occasionally called Pamiris and Guhjali. It is spoken by the inhabitants of the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan, parts of Gilgit-Baltistan (the former NAs) of Pakistan, the Gorno-Badakhshan region of Tajikistan, and Xinjiang in Western China . The Wakhi use the self-appellation 'X̌ik' (ethnic) and suffix it with 'wor'/'war' to denote their language as 'X̌ik-wor' themselves. The noun 'X̌ik' comes from *waxša-ī̆ka- (an inhabitant of *Waxša- 'Oxus', for Wakhan, in Wakhi 'Wux̌.' There are other equivalents for

250-662: The Sikhs and the Dogras of Kashmir in Gilgit Agency. But more often, they fought with each other, intrigued and murdered each other. In 1895, the British took control of the territory under the Gilgit Agency. By this point, Yasin had become firmly recognized as part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir . The primary languages of Yasin Valley are Burushaski language and Khowar Language . English Wakhi and Shina

275-580: The Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China , Russia , and Turkey . In the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan, Wakhi is spoken from Putur , near Ishkashim , to the upper reaches of the Wakhan River . In Tajikistan, the Wakhi and other communities that speak one of the Pamir languages refer to themselves as Pamiri or Badakhshani, and there has been a movement to separate their identity from that of

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300-639: The Thoi Pass connects Yasin to Yarkhun Chitral, height 4,690 metres (15,390 ft). Assumber pass connects Yasin to Ishkoman . Darkot Pass is an historical pass which has been labelled as a restricted zone by the government of Pakistan. This pass used to be the shortest means of communication between the Oxus and Indus . Most tourism is along the Assumbur Pass to the Ishkoman Valley . one pass

325-530: The snail shell / Kišrif Wakhi or reefs found in Gircha, which are of great archeological interest. According to numerology, the study of the significance of numbers, one is the life path number for Gircha. Wakhi language Wakhi is one of several languages that belong to the areal Pamir language group . It is believed to be a descendant of the Scytho-Khotanese language once spoken in

350-714: The Ishkashmi, Shighni/...nani and Wakhi languages are included. A very rough estimate of the population of Wakhis is 58,000 worldwide. The Wakhi live in six countries. In the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan , the Wakhi people mainly live in Gojal , Ishkoman , and Darkut , as well as in Chitral District's Broghol . They live in parts of Wakhan in Afghanistan , Gorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan , and

375-585: The Yasin Valley. The part of the valley where Khowar is spoken is known in the Shina language as Arinah . Administratively, Yasin constitutes Yasin Tehsil , which is part of Ghizer District . It is further divided into four local councils: Yasin, Sultanabad, Silgan and Thoi. The Darkut Pass connects Yasin with Wakhan and Chitral , height 4,267 metres (13,999 ft), Buroghul pass connect Yasin with Brughol, height 3,798 metres (12,461 ft) while

400-718: The collaboration of Lok Virsa Pakistan, the Aga Khan Cultural Service Pakistan (AKCSP) , and Pakistan television . In 2000, the WCA won a "Best Programme" organizer award in the Silk Road Festival from the President of Pakistan , Pervez Musharraf . A computerized codification of the Wakhi script has been released, which will help to promote the language development program and documentation of Wakhi poetry, literature, and history . Wakhi

425-680: The country. Havaldar Lalak Jan Shaheed who was given the Pakistan Military's highest award Nishan-e-Haider for his bravery in Kargil War in 1999, belonged to Hundur in Yasin valley. Yasin is separated from the Ishkoman Valley by a high mountain pass. To reach Yasin one must take the Karakoram Highway north from Islamabad , and then turn left to reach Gupis in Ghizar . After Gupis, one continues northwest to reach

450-787: The early 1960s: Sample text from a Bible translation published in 2001 is shown below: The Wakhi lexicon exhibits significant differences with the other Pamir languages. Gawarjon's comparison of the dialects of Sarikoli and Wakhi spoken in China is reproduced below. In Pakistan multiple books have been published since 1980s. X̌ikwor zik by Master Haqiqat, Religious hymes by Riaz Ahmed Riaz. Qaida e Wakhi Zaban by Ahmed Jami Sakhi. Magazines and Parlon Wakhi by Karim Khan Saka. "Beyoz-e-Bulbul" by Nazir Ahmad Bulbul . A collection of old and new poems folklores compiled by Bulbulik Heritage Center, Gulmit. Yasin Valley Yasin Valley

475-687: The largest Wakhi population in Pakistan. The Wakhis of Ishkoman lives primarily in the Karambar valley, the town of Imit, and beyond. In Yasin , they live mainly in the vicinity of Darkot, and in Yarhkun, they are found in Baroghil and a few other small villages in the high, upper portion of the valley. In Pakistan, the central organization of the Wakhi is the Wakhi Cultural Association Pakistan (WCA). This organization

500-450: The majority of Persian-speaking Tajiks . Linguists universally refer to Wakhi as an East Iranian language independent of Tajik Persian, but many Tajik nationalists insist that Wakhi and other Pamir languages are dialects of Tajik Persian. In Gilgit-Baltistan , Wakhi is spoken in the sparsely populated upper portions of five of the northernmost valleys: Hunza , Gojal , Ishkoman , Yasin , Gupis , and Yarkhun . The Hunza Valley has

525-572: The name Wakhi (Anglicised) or Wakhani (Arabic and Persian), Vakhantsy (Russian), Gojali/Gojo (Dingrik-wor/Shina), Guyits/Guicho (Burushaski), Wakhigi/Wakhik-war (Kivi-wor/Khow-wor) and Cert (Turki). The language belongs, as yet to be confirmed according to studies and sources, to the southern group of the Pamir languages, in the Iranian group of the Indo-European family (450) of languages, where

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550-551: The source of letters for phonemes that don't exist in Persian. The vowels are shown to reflect Urdu pronunciations and not the Dari / Tajik pronunciation. Meaning that, for example, the phoneme [ɔ], which is equivalent to Iranian Persian [ ɒː ] after having undergone a chain shift , is not written with alef "آ / ا /ا ـا‎", but with the letter waw " او / و / ـو ‎ ". Stylistically, while in Afghanistan Naskh

575-547: The source of letters for phonemes that don't exist in Persian. This orthographic standard has similarities to the orthographies of other Pamir languages , such as Shughni and Munji . Notes : The below table is the Pakistani version of the Perso-Arabic alphabet for the Wakhi language.[1] This alphabet has also been derived from the alphabet of Dari (Persian). However, Urdu , Pakistan's national language, has been

600-478: The various retroflex sounds missing in Persian. Urdu and orthographies of other languages of Gilgit-Baltistan have been the inspiration in Pakistan. The below table is the Afghan version of the Perso-Arabic alphabet for the Wakhi language. The alphabet has been derived from the alphabet of Dari (Persian), one of Afghanistan's national languages. Pashto , the other national language of Afghanistan, has been

625-446: Was not a written language. Wakhi people live in 4 countries, Afghanistan , Tajikistan , Pakistan , and China , and are in contact with speakers of various other languages. Writing systems have been developed for the language using Arabic , Cyrillic , and Latin scripts , each with inspirations from neighboring languages and orthographic conventions. However, due to the pluricentric nature of Wakhi dialects, marginalization in favour of

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