"Amongst the families [in Dughoba] where at least some Yaghnobi is spoken (the Yaghnobi and Yaghnobi/Tajik- speaking families), it is almost exclusively the younger generation who are now speaking Tajik, and the middle-aged and older generations who continue to speak Yaghnobi. More specifically, in 66 percent of them (35 of 53) the younger generation are now speaking Tajik in the home where their parents or grandparents speak or spoke Yaghnobi... [however,] transmission is overwhelmingly by parents to children as the first language of both. Only in Dughoba are there numerous instances of Yaghnobi-speaking parents whose children consider Tajik their first language."

"We found a strong sense of ethnolinguistic identity in most villages in the Yaghnob Valley... Attitudes to literature in the vernacular are overwhelmingly positive... Proficiency in Tajik among Yaghnobi is generally very high, especially for men... Tajik is the sole medium of communication [in schools]."

"[Yaghnobi] is not a written language, but is used for daily family communication."

"The Tajik Academy of Science was asked to support the preservation of the Yaghnobi language."

"The overwhelming majority of children are learning Yaghnobi as a first language... It was apparent that the form of language passed on from parents to their children contains more borrowed Tajik words and sometimes borrowed Tajik grammatical constructions... the language is in danger of losing more and more of its distinctiveness. If this trend continues, Yaghnobi will one day become mutually intelligible with Tajik."

"The government is not providing funding for printing Yaghnobi text books or hiring Yaghnobi teachers. As a result, Yaghnobi classes were no longer being taught as of the school year of 2006... Yaghnobi communities are maintaining a strong positive sense of self identity, contact with the majority (Tajik) community remains fairly low, and very few people are fully fluent in Tajik. Most importantly, Tajik is only being used in domains where it is required for communication with non-Yaghnobi speakers. "

The Yaghnabis do not have their own written language. However, it is known (M. Kordeyev's observations in the 1920s) that the Yaghnabi mullahs sometimes made notes in the Yaghnabi language using the Arabic script.