Tajik, also called Tajik Persian or Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by ethnic Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari in Afghanistan, with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of the Persian language.
Facts
ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2022-2023 estimate. Connections
Written In
Tajik is standardly written in a Cyrillic-based alphabet.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Tajik Language
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Tajik, Tajik Persian, Tajiki Persian, also called Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by ethnic Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari in Afghanistan, with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of the Persian language. Several scholars consider Tajik to be a dialectal variety of Persian rather than a language in its own right. The question of whether Tajik and Persian should be considered two dialects of a single language or two discrete languages has political aspects to it.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
tgk
Infobox, Speakers
10.5 million (2022-2023)
Infobox, Region
Central Asia
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