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Tajik

Also known as Tajiki, Tajiki language, Tadjik, Tadjik language, Tadzhik, Tadzhik language, Tajik Persian, Tajiki Persian

language spoken in Tajikistan

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Tajik is a language spoken primarily in Tajikistan, a Central Asian country, and serves as the main language of communication for millions of people in that region. It matters because it is central to the cultural identity and daily life of Tajik people, and understanding it is important for anyone engaging with Tajikistan's society, government, or history.

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entry in abbreviations table: тадж.
Wikimedia language code: tg
native label: زبان تاجیکی
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 14000000
Commons category: Tajik language
short name: тәжікше
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TGK
P10369: Wikipedia
P13311: Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten

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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 of Afghanistan, with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of the Persian language. Several scholars consider Tajik as a dialectal variety of Persian rather than a language on its own. The issue of whether Tajik and Persian are to be considered two dialects of a single language or two discrete languages has political aspects to it.

By way of Early New Persian, Tajik, like Iranian Persian and Dari Persian, is a continuation of Middle Persian, the official administrative, religious and literary language of the Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE), itself a continuation of Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC).