varieties of the Persian language. Several scholars consider Tajik as a dialectal variety of Persian rather than a language on its own. The popularity...

intelligible with — the Tajik branch of the Persian language. Historically, Bukharian was spoken by Jews in Central Asia. The language classification of Bukharian...

Tajiks (Persian: تاجيک، تاجک, romanized: Tājīk, Tājek; Tajik: Тоҷик, romanized: Tojik) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia...

The Tajik language has been written in three alphabets over the course of its history: an adaptation of the Perso-Arabic script, an adaptation of the Latin...

Tajikistan: Tajiks, an ethnic group in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan Tajik alphabet, Alphabet...

The two official languages of Tajikistan are Russian as the interethnic language and Tajik as the state language, as understood in Article 2 of the Constitution:...

The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, also commonly known as Soviet Tajikistan, the Tajik SSR, or simply Tajikistan, was one of the constituent republics...

Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a derivative of the Cyrillic script. Modern Persian is a continuation of Middle Persian, an official language of the Sasanian...

ethnographer was told by nearby Tajiks, long hostile to the Yaghnobis, who were late to adopt Islam, that the Yaghnobis used their language as a "secret" mode of...

officially referred to in China as the "Tajik language", although it is different from the related Iranian language spoken in Tajikistan, which is considered...