Shughni (Central Asian people)
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Hugní (Central Asian people)
Hugnuní (Central Asian people)
Khughnuni (Central Asian people)
Kushani (Central Asian people)
Shughnani (Central Asian people)
Shughnis (Central Asian people)
Shugnan-Rushan (Central Asian people)
Shugnani (Central Asian people)
Shugnant︠s︡y (Central Asian people)
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found: Work cat.: Shugnant︠s︡y, 2004:t.p. (Shugnant︠s︡y) p. 474 (in English summary: Shugnani; Iranian speaking peoples residing in the valleys of the Panj River on the border of Tadjikistan and Afghanistan; estimated population is 80,000-100,000)
found: Red book of peoples of the Russian Empire, viewed June 20, 2006(The Shughnis; self designation: hu[g]nuní ; hugní; the Shughnis inhabit the right bank of the River Pyandzh; administratively this is in the Shughni district of the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region of Tadzhikistan; their language is part of the Pamir languages of the Iranian group of the Indo-European family of languages)
found: Encyc. of the peoples of the world, 1993:p. 549 (Shughni (Shughnani, Khughnuni))
found: Encyclopedia Britannica online, viewed June 20, 2006(under Tajikistan: among the Pamir Tajiks within the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region are minority peoples speaking Shughni)
found: Ethnologue database, viewed June 20, 2006(under Tajikistan: Shughni (Shugnan-Rushan); people located in Tajikistan (in Gorno-Bagakhshan, Pamir Mountains area) and Afghanistan; Indo-Iranian; they speak many dialects, Tajik is used as a literary language)
found: Joshua Project database, viewed June 20, 2006(Shughni; alternate names: Kushani, Shugnan-Rushan, Shugnan-Rush; in the Iranian-Median ethnic tree; their language is: Shughni; they are in Afghanistan and Tajikistan)
found: LC database, June 20, 2006(hdg.: Shughni dialect)
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2006-06-26: new
2006-08-24: revised
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