Image from the Wakhi Music VK page.

Here's a collection of Wakhi songs, both from Pakistan and Tajikistan. The Wakhi number about 100 000 and live across Badakhshan (Tajikistan and Afghanistan) as well as in north west Pakistan and far west China. Their language has not traditionally been written (although there are scripts in Cyrillic and Arabic) and so song and story-telling are two of the principle ways the language is kept alive.

The collection includes religious songs such as this one:

There are also some beautiful love songs, such as this, titled (when roughly translated) - 'So beautiful, Lola my flower'

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