Rushani language
| Rushani | |
|---|---|
| rixū̊n ziv | |
| Native to | Afghanistan, Tajikistan |
Native speakers | (15,000 in Tajikistan cited 1975)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
sgh-rus | |
| ELP | Rushani |
Rushani is a dialect of Shughnani.
Rushani is unusual in having a transitive case – a so-called double-oblique clause structure – in the past tense. That is, in the past tense,[2] the agent and object of a transitive verb are both marked, while the subject of an intransitive verb is not. In the present tense, the object of the transitive verb is marked, the other two roles are not – that is, a typical nominative–accusative alignment.[3] See transitive case for examples.
References
- ^ Shughni at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ or perhaps perfective aspect
- ^ J.R. Payne, 'Language Universals and Language Types', in Collinge, ed. 1990. An Encyclopedia of Language. Routledge. From Payne, 1980.
Literature
- Zarubin, I.I.. Bartangskie i rushanskie teksty i slovar. Moskva : Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1937.
- Payne, John, "Pamir languages" in Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, ed. Schmitt (1989), 417–444.
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