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Tajik, [2] [a] Tajik Persian, Tajiki Persian, [b] also called Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari of Afghanistan with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of the Persian language. Several scholars consider Tajik as a dialectal ...
Tajik" was frequently employed by the Turkic or Turco-Mongol governing elite in Ilkhanid, Timurid, and Safavid literature to differentiate Persians from Turks and Mongols. Examples include bitikchiān-e tāzik ("Persian secretaries") by Rashid al-Din Hamadani in his Tarikh-e ghazani (1310); ra'iyat-e tāzik ("the Persian peasantry") by Sayf ...
رودکی) is the regulatory body for the Tajik variety of Persian language, headquartered in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. [2] It is one of the oldest research institutes in the Tajik Academy of Sciences; it acts as the official authority on the language and contributes to linguistic research on the Tajik language and other languages of Tajikistan ...
There are several languages of Tajikistan. Officially, the country recognizes Russian as the interethnic language and Tajik (a variety of Persian) as the state language. After these two, Uzbek is the next most popular. Minority languages native to the area include Kyrgyz, Yaghnobi, Parya, and the various Pamir languages.
When the Soviet Union introduced the Latin script in 1928, and later the Cyrillic script, the Persian dialect of Tajikistan came to be disassociated from the Tajik language. Many Tajik authors have lamented this artificial separation of the Tajik language from its Iranian heritage. [87] One Tajik poem relates: Once you said 'you are Iranian ...
This article describes the grammar of the standard Tajik language as spoken and written in Tajikistan. In general, the grammar of the Tajik language fits the analytical type . Little remains of the case system , and grammatical relationships are primarily expressed via clitics , word order and other analytical constructions.
Tajik literature and its history is bound up with the standardisation of the Tajik language. Tajik literary centres include the cities of Bukhara and Samarkand, currently in present-day Uzbekistan but with a majority Tajik population and Balkh and Herat in Afghanistan. During the Soviet era, the principal literary output was socialist realism ...
Muhammadjon Shakuri (Tajik: Муҳаммадҷон Шакурӣ, Persian: محمدجان شکوری; February 1925, in Bukhara – September 16, 2012, in Dushanbe), also known as Muhammad Sharifovich Shukurov, was a prominent Tajik intellectual and one of the notable literary figures of the Persian language of the 20th century. [1]