Yaghnābī language
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Yaghnobi is an Iranian language spoken by a small population southeast of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It has two minor dialects: eastern and western. The primary distinction between these dialects is the pronunciation of an older \u03b8 sound, which is rendered as a t in the western dialect and an s in the eastern dialect. For example, the word for 'day' is m\u0113t in western Yaghnobi and m\u0113s in eastern Yaghnobi, corresponding to the Sogdian word m\u0113\u03b8. Yaghnobi is part of the Indo-European language family.12
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