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Tajik Language

Tajik alphabet, Tajik orthography, Tajik language history and sources

Tajik language

Tajik: Official language of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Number of Tajik Speakers: Five million worldwide.

Tajik Speakers: In Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan.

Language Classification: Closely related to Persian spoken in Iran and Afghanistan.

Tajik Alphabet: Roman alphabet was introduced in 1928. It was replaced by Cyrillic in 1940. Former versions of Tajik were in Arabic script until early 1900's.

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Tajik Orthography: Six vowels. No grammatical gender or articles. Persons and numbers are distinguished. Basic stems of past and present are used for verbs. Subject-Object-Verb order in sentence.

Tajik Language Enriched by: Russian.

Unique Features of Tajik: Stress is on the last syllable.

For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Tajik language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Tajik.

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