. Influence of the Tajik language on the formation of the system of pronounal clicks in the Paryá language in Tajikistanin

This article investigates the development of the pronominal clitic (PNC) system in the minor Indo-Aryan language Parya, interpreting it as the result of an interplay between Parya and Tajik/Dari linguistic models under conditions of long-term bilingualism among Parya speakers. A comparison of the syntactic positions and forms of Parya's pronominal possessive markers leads to the conclusion that the first- and second-person pronominal adjectives can undergo formal and functional changes analogous to those of the sole inherited PNC =so (third person masculine). These changes arise from a shift to an enclitic position, followed by phonetic reduction. The functional distinction between prepositional and postpositional forms mirrors that observed in third-person possessors: prepositional forms typically convey new information, while the PNC indicates given or presupposed information within the possessive relationship. The emergence of the PNC system in Parya is thus grounded in the inherited third-person clitic model, which was extended through the cliticisation of first- and second-person possessive adjectives. This development appears to have been catalyzed by the influence of the Tajik/Dari six-member PNC system, within a diglossic context in which Parya consistently functioned as the low variety.