11221 Shughni 18,600 According to a 1926 census, there were 21,000 Shughnis, by 1939 -- 18,600 (according to other data, 13,000 -- 15,000) and 500 speakers of the Bajuvi dialect. About the same number of Shughnis are thought to live in Afghanistan. The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire Off