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Facts about Tajik[edit | edit source]
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
tgk - Autonyms (how to write "Tajik" in Tajik):
Тоҷикӣ / Toçikī / تاجيكي - Other names for "Tajik":
Tadzhik, Tajik, Tajiki Persian ("Galcha") - The Tajik language is spoken in:
Tajikistan
The Tajiks trace their history to the earliest known inhabitants of Central Asia. These were the Indo-Iranian people who lived along the Oxus River during the Greco-Bactrian dynasties of the fourth to the first centuries B.C. The Tajiks diffused themselves over most of Central Asia, between the Jaxartes River (Syr Darya) and the Oxus River (Amu Darya), northern and western centuries, during the rule of the Samanids, that the basic ethnolinguistic features of the Tajiks were formed and established. The Tajiks lost their state with the fall of the Samanids, though they fought tenaciously for their freedom in the ensuing centuries. Later the Tajiks lost significant amounts of territorial influence and suffered a decrease in population as a direct result of the conquest of the Mongol and Turkic tribes.
Linguistically, the Tajik language is a dialect of modern Persian, which is included in the West Iranian group, a group which also includes such languages as Balochi and Kurdish. Within the West Iranian branch Persian is categorized as a Southwest Iranian language. There are numerous dialects of Persian, but the three major regional dialects include the Iranian dialect of “Tehrani” Persian, sometimes reffered to as Farsi, the Afghan dialect of Persian which is called Dari and the Tajik dialect spoken north of the Oxus River primarily in the republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. There are more similarities than there are differences between these three dialects, yet certain major linguistic differences do distinguish each of the three dialects.
Tajik is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajik people. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari 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 popularity of this conception of Tajik as a variety of Persian was such that, during the period in which Tajik intellectuals were trying to establish Tajik as a language separate from Persian, prominent intellectual Sadriddin Ayni counterargued that Tajik was not a "bastardised dialect" of Persian.
Sources[edit | edit source]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajik_language
Tajik Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
• Tajiki-English dictionary [PDF] (2004)
• фарҳанги тафсирии забони тоҷикӣ: dictionary of the Tajik language (2008) А-Н - О-Я
Sources[edit | edit source]
https://www.lexilogos.com/english/tajik_dictionary.htm
Free Tajik Lessons[edit | edit source]
Language Exchange[edit | edit source]
Forum[edit | edit source]
Tools[edit | edit source]
Marketplace[edit | edit source]
Tajik Online Virtual Keyboard[edit | edit source]
Last Lessons[edit | edit source]
Etiquette and Social Norms — Holidays and Celebrations — Using Prepositions — Money and Currency — Shopping Vocabulary — Using Conjunctions — Asking for Directions — Modes of Transportation — Past Tense — Present Tense — Eating and Drinking — Common Foods — Using Adverbs — Using Adjectives — Describing Relationships — Family Members — Gender and Plurality of Nouns — Telling Time — Numbers 1 20 — Negation in Sentences — Subject Object Verb Order — Introducing Yourself — Basic Greetings — Vowels and Consonants — Introduction to the Tajik Alphabet — 0 to A1 Course — Tajikistan Timeline — How to Use Be — How to say Good Bye? — Health