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Tajikistan and Central Asia

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Тоҷикӣ

01The language

Codes
ISO 639-3: tgk · macrolanguage fas · Glottocode: taji1245 · page code: tg
Family
Indo-European › Classical Indo-European › Indo-Iranian › Iranian-Nuristani › Iranian › Southwestern Iranian › Middle-Modern Persian › Modern Southwestern Iranian › Farsic-Caucasian Tat › Farsic › Eastern Farsic › Tajikic
Script
Cyrl, left to right
Interface
Country pages, native review pending
Platform phase
Phase 2
Technology support
Partly supported
Shown with
IBM Plex Sans

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; ISO 639-3 code tables. SIL International, registration authority. (2025) To verify

02Names and perspectives

Where names, classification or identity are debated, each view is shown with its sources. The platform takes no side.

  • тоҷикӣ tojikī

03Where it is spoken, and by how many

Tajikistan and Central Asia

Unknown

Speakers: No speaker figure has been verified for this platform yet. It stays unknown until a census or survey figure is checked with its measure, year and source.

04Status

The UNESCO World Atlas of Languages is the United Nations source; its status is shown first and stays to verify until the Atlas can be read. Beside it, the Agglomerated Endangerment Status in Glottolog brings together the Catalogue of Endangered Languages, the UNESCO Atlas and Ethnologue. Ethnologue appears only as a secondary source.

EntryStatusBasisSource
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verifyUNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify
TajikNot endangered1 (National)Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source via Glottolog

05Legal status

What constitutions say about the language. Quoted from the English translations of the Constitute Project.

06Varieties and dialects

Dialect groups as Glottolog records them. Names stay as published.

Tajik

9 dialects recorded

  • Badakhshan
  • Darwazi
  • Derbent
  • Goron
  • Hissar Tajik
  • Karatag
  • Kuljub
  • Lyuli
  • Matchin
  • Vaxio-Bolo

Sources Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified

07This language’s pages

  • Writing

    Scripts, the alphabet chart, romanisation, numerals, keyboards and fonts.

  • Linguistics

    Sounds in IPA, pronunciation, grammar and core words compared with neighbouring languages.

  • Learn

    A pathway from first steps to fluency, courses, exams and heritage-language programmes.

  • Resources and preservation

    Dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

08Courses

09How to help

  • Native reviewers: read the Tajik pages and mark them reviewed.
  • Teachers: teach or help write Dari and Tajik bridges.
  • Sources: point the research team to openly licensed dictionaries, corpora and recordings. Each enters the sources register for review.
  • Fonts and keyboards: report any letter that does not display or type correctly.

10Sources

  1. Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 2025

    Verified CC BY 4.0 Classification, dialect groups and the Agglomerated Endangerment Status (AES), read 2026-10-23.

  2. Perry. A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar. Brill. 2005

    To verify

  3. UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. 2025

    To verify Not reachable when checked on 2026-10-23. Its status for each language is to verify.

  4. Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. 2025

    Secondary source Cited only as Glottolog reports it (its AES source). Ethnologue itself was not read.

  5. Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations. 2025

    Verified Articles on official languages, read 2026-10-23.

Cite this page
APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Tajik. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/tg/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Tajik.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/tg/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_tg,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Tajik},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/tg/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/tg/},
}

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11Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Tajik-Wakhi language contact

    Jaroslava Obrtelová · 2022 · Orientalia Suecana

    ArticleCrossrefDOAJOpenAIREOpen access

  2. HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE TAJIK LANGUAGE

    R.N. Ibragimova · 2026 · ИННОВАЦИОННЫЕ НАУЧНЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

    OtherZenodoOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  3. 5 Tajik Sign Language in context

    Justin M. Power · 2023 · Tajik Linguistics

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  4. ABOUT ALISHER NAVOI’S WORK "DEVONI FONIY" IN PERSIAN-TAJIK LANGUAGE

    Mamlakat Dexkanova · 2025 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  5. Character-Level Transformer for Tajik-Persian Transliteration with a Parallel Lexical Corpus

    Mullosharaf K. Arabov · 2026 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpen access

  6. TOPIC: INTERPRETATION OF LEXICAL UNITS BORROWED INTO THE UZBEK LANGUAGE FROM THE PERSIAN-TAJIK LANGUAGE

    Nabiyeva Lazizabegim · 2026 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  7. Benchmarking POS Tagging for the Tajik Language: A Comparative Study of Neural Architectures on the TajPersParallel Corpus

    Mullosharaf K. Arabov · 2026 · arXiv

    PreprintarXivOpen access

  8. Teaching the Uzbekistan Language in A Tajik-Uzbekistan Bilingual Environment

    Khojiyeva Iroda Zokirjon qizi · 2025 · International Journal Of Literature And Languages

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  9. The functional analysis of interrogative structures in Persian and Tajik languages

    Hengameh Vaezi, Kholov Saidmuhiddin Saidmurodovich · 2015 · Ученые записки Худжандского государственного университета им. академика Б. Гафурова. Гуманитарные науки

    ArticleOpenAlex

  10. Tajik Language

    National Cancer Institute · 2020 · Definitions

    OtherCrossref

  11. Persian and Tajik

    2013 · The Iranian Languages

    ChapterCrossref

  12. Tajik Persian: Readings in History, Culture and Society

    Razi Ahmad · 2016 · University of Kansas Libraries

    BookCrossref

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