Pamir Kyrgyz dialect

{{Short description|Dialect of Kyrgyz language spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Pamiri Kyrgyz

| image = Pamiri Kyrgyz.png

| nativename = {{lang|ky|پامیری قیرغیز}}

| region = Chitral, Gojal, Wakhan

| state = Pakistan, Afghanistan

| speakers = 6,000 (in Pakistan)

| date = 2023

| ref = {{cite web|title=Kyrgyz Language (KIR)|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/kir/ |access-date=1 April 2025|website=Ethnologue}}

| familycolor = Altaic

| fam1 = Turkic

| fam2 = Common Turkic

| fam3 = Kipchak

| fam4 = Kyrgyz–Kipchak

| fam5 = Kyrgyz

| script = Arabic

| glotto =

| glottorefname =

| imagecaption = Pamiri Kyrgyz in Nastaliq

| isoexception = dialect

}}

Pamir Kyrgyz ({{Langx|ky|{{nq|پامیری قیرغیزچه}}}}) is a dialect of the Kyrgyz language natively spoken in the Chitral district and Gojal Valley of Pakistan and Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan.{{cite journal |last1=Callahan |first1=Ted |title=THE KYRGYZ OF THE AFGHAN PAMIR RIDE ON |journal=Nomadic Peoples |date=2007 |volume=11 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43123791}} It has been evolving into a distinct dialect of Kyrgyz due to its isolation.{{cite web | url=https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/the-situation-of-the-pamir-kyrgyz-after-the-talibans-takeover-of-afghanistan | title=The Situation of the Pamir Kyrgyz after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan }} The dialect is known by its speakers as Black Kyrgyz ({{lang|ky|{{nq|قاره قیرغیز}}}}).{{cite book |last1=Bliss |first1=Frank |title=Social and Economic Change in the Pamirs (Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan) |date=2006 |publisher=Routledge, 2006 |isbn=9781134396177 |page=193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sJpH_54CDHQC&q=pamir+kyrgyz+dialect}}