Sarikoli

1. An Eastern Iranian language spoken by the Tajiks of China.

   Iranian languages are at present spoken across a wide belt of territory stretching from eastern Turkey (Kurdish) to the Sinkiang province of China (Sarikoli) and the shores of the Arabian Sea in western Pakistan (Beludzh).

   1981, Bernard Comrie, The Languages of the Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 158

plural Sarikolis

1. A member of a subgroup of the Pamiris that speaks the Sarikoli language.

   The native inhabitants of the Wakhan extend as well into both neighboring areas; that is, the Wakhi, an Iranian (not Persian) linguistic group, dwell outside Afghan borders in close proximity to similar groups, such as the Ishkashimi, the Sarikoli, and others.

   1998, Raphe H. Magnus, Eden Naby, Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 5