Tajik language
The Tajik language is the official language of Tajikistan. It is a dialect of the Persian language. It was written in the Persian alphabet until 1928. From 1928 to 1939, it was written mostly in the Latin alphabet until the Soviet government forced Tajiks to write their language in Cyrillic in 1939. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajik continues to be written in Cyrillic, although now it can also be written in the Latin alphabet.
| Tajik/Tajiki | ||||
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| тоҷикӣ (tojikī) | ||||
_and_Nastaliq_(%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C).svg) "Tojikī" written in Cyrillic script and Persian (Nasta'liq script) | ||||
| Native to | Tajikistan and Uzbekistan | |||
| Ethnicity | Tajiks | |||
| Native speakers | 8.4 million (2015 census – 2015)e18 | |||
| Language family | ||||
| Writing system | Cyrillic, Latin | |||
| Official status | ||||
| Official language in |  Tajikistan | |||
| Recognised minority language in | ||||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-1 | tg | |||
| ISO 639-2 | tgk | |||
| ISO 639-3 | tgk | |||
| Linguasphere | 58-AAC-ci | |||
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Tajik Language Media
Tajik Republic's 1929 coat of arms with Tajik language in Perso-Arabic script: جمهوريت اجتماعی شوروى مختار تاجيكستان, Current script: Ҷумҳурият Иҷтимоӣ Шӯравӣ Мухтор Тоҷикистон
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This language has its own Wikipedia project. See the Tajik language edition. |
