Oroshori dialect

{{Short description|Shughni dialect of Tajikistan and Afghanistan}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Oroshori

| nativename = {{lang|sgh-Cyrl|Орошори}} {{lang|sgh-Latn|Orošori}}
{{lang|sgh-Cyrl|Орошори зив}} {{lang|sgh-Latn|Orošori ziv}}

| altname = Roshorvi

| states = Tajikistan, Afghanistan

| region = Gorno-Badakhshan, Badakhshan Province

| ethnicity = Oroshoris

| speakers = 1,500

| date = 2001

| ref = {{cite book |last1=Wurum |first1=Stephen A |title=Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing |date=2001 |publisher=UNESCO |isbn=9789231037986 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YjXvAgAAQBAJ&dq=Oroshori+language&pg=PA36}}

| familycolor = Indo-European

| fam2 = Indo-Iranian

| fam3 = Iranian

| fam4 = Eastern Iranian

| fam5 = Shughni–Yazgulami

| fam6 = Shughni

| script = Cyrillic script (Tajik Cyrillic alphabet){{cite web | url=https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/5866 | title=Did you know Oroshor is vulnerable? }}

| isoexception = dialect

| glotto = oros1238

| glottoname = Oroshor

}}

Oroshori (also known as Roshorvi) is a dialect of Shughni, a Pamiri language spoken in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in Tajikistan as well as 267 speakers in Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province.{{cite book |last1=Moseley |first1=Christopher |title=Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages |date=2008 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135796402 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-7ON7Rvx_AC&dq=Oroshori+language&pg=PT464}}{{cite web | url=http://www.kumitaizabon.tj/en/category/roshorvi-or-oroshori-language | title=Roshorvi or Oroshori language | the Committee of Language and Terminology by the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan }} It is similar to other dialects of Shughni such as Rushani and Bartangi.{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4311186 | jstor=4311186 | title=Languages and Dialects: Islamic Period | last1=Perry | first1=John R. | journal=Iranian Studies | year=1998 | volume=31 | issue=3/4 | pages=517–525 | doi=10.1080/00210869808701929 }} Oroshori contains many loanwords from Sarikoli{{cite book |last1=Comrie |first1=Bernard |title=The World's Major Languages |date=2009 |page=443 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134261567 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DR-AgAAQBAJ&dq=Oroshori+language&pg=PA443}} as well as Kyrgyz.{{cite book |last1=Windfuhr |first1=Gernot |title=Iranian Languages |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1135797041 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QtpQZ1DD6tEC&dq=Oroshori+language&pg=PA787}}