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Bookmark or Share- Tajikistan | People, Religion, History, & Facts | BritannicaTajikistan, country lying in the heart of Central Asia with its capital in Dushanbe. Of the Central Asian states, it has the smallest land area but the highest elevation. Its population is predominantly ethnic Tajiks, a traditionally sedentary people of Central Asia who speak a form of Persian and are mostly Sunni.
- Tajikistan - WikipediaThe official languages of Tajikistan are Tajik as the state language and Russian as the interethnic language, as understood in Article 2 of the Constitution: "The state language of Tajikistan shall be Tajik. Russian shall be the language of international communication."
- Tajiks - WikipediaThe Tajiks are the principal ethnic group in most of Tajikistan, as well as in northern and western Afghanistan, though there are more Tajiks in Afghanistan than in Tajikistan. Tajiks are a substantial minority in Uzbekistan, as well as in overseas communities.
- Tajik language - WikipediaTajik, also called Tajiki Persian or Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by 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 ...
- Tajik language, alphabet and pronunciation - OmniglotTajik (тоҷики) Tajik is a variety of Persian spoken mainly in Tajikistan, and also in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, China and Kazakhstan. There are about 8 million speakers of Tajik, including 6.3 million in Tajikstan (in 2012), 1.2 million in Uzbekistan (in 2014), 42,000 in Kyrgyzstan (in 2009), 40,000 in China (in 2010), and 33,500 in ...
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