Historical Context. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ lacks a native account of origins and history. The people themselves often claim to have been living in the Pamir Mountains since the beginning of time, and that they are the oldest Iranian civilization speaking the orig- inal or most ancient variety of Persian. Given the harsh conditions on the eastern Pamir plateau, Sarikoli people reason that no one would choose to as- cend the mountain; instead, they conveniently descended from their mountain dwellings. Shughni and Rushani, the most closely-related languages to Sarikoli, are spo- ▇▇▇ in eastern Tajikistan and Afghanistan. According to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, the Sarikoli people migrated several centuries ago from the Upper Bartang of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan. More populations fled from Upper Bartang in 1911, when the massive Sarez-Pamir earthquake trig- gered landslides and destroyed their villages (2004:2).
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