DUSHANBE, August 8, 2014, Asia-Plus – Epic animation “Zolotaya Antilopa” (The Golden Antelope), which is the famous classic of the Soviet animation, now is available on the popular video-sharing website YouTube in the Shughni language as well.
Firouz Sabzaliyev, the author of an idea of dubbing the animation into the Shughni language, says professional screen and theater actors from Dushanbe participated in dubbing the animation into the Shughni language.
“I have long tried to do anything for children in my native language and I have decided to dub this animation into the Shughni language,” Firouz Sabzaliyev told Asia-Plus in an interview.
“I do not think that any Tajik TV channel will show “Tilloi Nakhchir” (The Golden Antelope) but it is now available on YouTube,” noted.
Firouz Sabzaliyev and his team have been working on dubbing famous film “Yunosti Pervoye Utro” (The First Morning of Youth) by known Tajik filmmaker Davlat Khudonazarov into the Shughni language. This film in Russia was shot in Gorno Badakhshan in 1979.
“To-date, we have dubbed two parts of the film ad will start work on dubbing the third part in the near future,” Sabzaliyev noted.
“I want Shughni and other Pamir languages to sound not only in everyday life but also on screen and by radio. That is why these dubbings have been made,” Sabzaliyev stressed.
He further added that he planned to dub “Deti Pamira” (Children of Pamirs) into the Shughni language. It is the first film by Soviet and Russian filmmaker Vladimir Motyl (June 26, 1927 – February 21, 2010). The film in Russian was shot in 1963.
The Shughni language (including the dialects of Rushani, Oroshani, Bartangi, Oroshor, Khufi, and Shughni) along with Sarikoli, and Yazgulyam languages belongs to the Shughni-Sarikoli-Yazgulami sub-branch of the Pamir languages.
The Pamir languages are a subgroup of the Eastern Iranian languages, spoken by numerous people in the Pamir Mountains, primarily along the Panj River and its tributaries. This includes the Badakhshan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan. Smaller communities can be found in the adjacent areas of Pakistan where many have settled in recent decades.
The first published data concerning the Shughni language appeared in an article by R. Shaw “On the Shighni (Ghalchah) Dialect” (Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. 46, 1877).
A Shughni script was created in 1930/31 on the basis of the Latin alphabet. A number of textbooks and teaching devices were compiled for primary schools and some of them were even published. However, the Shughnis were only able to benefit from native language schooling for a few years.
