G ttingen 1933, pp. Roshani and Bartangi are formally close to Oroshori, contrasting with Shughni. Tadzhik influence is detectable in certain lexical areas. For example, in discussing politics Tadzhik expressions and grammatical constructions appear. The people of either village speak a somewhat different form of Roshani, the divergence, however, being negligible.
Lexical differences are few.
In the past, the Roshani and the Khufi practised a rather original form of co-operation. After ploughing their fields the Roshani sent their oxen for a stipulated fee to the upper villages in the Khufi valley where spring ploughing could be started a month later. In the 1950s the Roshani of the upper villages, like Bartangi, Oroshori and Yazgulami, were made to resettle on the cotton plantations of the Vakhsh valley. Sk ld, Materialen zu den Iranischen Pamirsprachen, Lund 1936 .