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The languages of the Tajiks have no official written form. [25] The vast majority speak the Sarikoli language, which has been heavily influenced by Chinese, Uyghur, and Wakhi. [26] A minority speak the Wakhi language. [27] Sarikoli and Wakhi are Iranian languages, commonly classified in the Pamir or Eastern Iranian areal groups. [28]
Sarikoli is officially referred to as "Tajik" (Chinese: 塔吉克语, Tǎjíkèyǔ) in China. [5]However, it is distantly related to Tajik (a form of Persian) as spoken in Tajikistan because Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language, closely related to other Pamir languages largely spoken in the Badakhshan regions of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, whereas Persian is a Western Iranian language and ...
They speak varieties of Persian, a Western Iranian language. In Tajikistan, since the 1939 Soviet census, its small Pamiri and Yaghnobi ethnic groups are included as Tajiks. [19] In China, the term is used to refer to its Pamiri ethnic groups, the Tajiks of Xinjiang, who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages.
The Pamiris [a] are an Eastern Iranian ethnic group, native to Central Asia, living primarily in Tajikistan (Gorno-Badakhshan), Afghanistan , Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan [b]) and China (Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County). [2] They speak a variety of different languages, amongst which languages of the Eastern Iranian Pamir language group stand out.
The Tor Tajiks are a Iranic people and they are ethnically Tajiks (an Iranic people who speak the Tajik language).Officially, Tor Tajiks are regarded as "Tajik", one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the government of China.
The Pamirian languages are spoken primarily in the Badakhshan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of eastern Tajikistan. Pamirian languages are also spoken in Xinjiang and the Pamir language Sarikoli is spoken beyond the Sarikol Range on the Afghanistan-China border and thus qualifies as the ...
Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County [5] [6] [7] (often shortened to Tashkurgan County and officially spelled Taxkorgan) is an autonomous county of Kashgar Prefecture, in western Xinjiang, China. The county seat is Tashkurgan .
Sarikoli language, spoken by Tajiks in China and officially referred to as the Tajik language in China The Arabic-schooled, ethnically Persian administrative officials of the Turco-Persian society List of Tajikistani records in athletics