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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.
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 language (4 C, 8 P) U. Uzbek language (7 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Languages of Tajikistan" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Tajik-language surnames (25 P) W. Tajik words and phrases (1 C) Pages in category "Tajik language" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2 ] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3 , defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...
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 ...
2 List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used. ... [26] Hakka [28] and Taiwan Sign Language. [27]) Tajik: ...
The language was brought into the region by various Turkic, Persian and Afghan dynasties, in particular the Turko-Afghan Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Dynasty. Persian held official status in the court and the administration within these empires and it heavily influenced many of the local languages, particularly Urdu and to some extent modern ...