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second phase · Language · tg · Iranian, Southwestern

Tajik

Тоҷикӣ · Cyrl script, written left to right. Spoken in Tajikistan and Central Asia.

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Language · tg · Iranian, Southwestern · second phase

Tajik

Тоҷикӣ · Cyrl script, written left to right. Spoken in Tajikistan and Central Asia.

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ScriptCyrlleft to rightsecond phase
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ТоҷикӣTajik · Cyrl
Code
tg
Family
Iranian, Southwestern
Where
Tajikistan and Central Asia
Phase
second phase
Coverage
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Codes are BCP 47 language and script subtags.

Courses that teach it

1 in the catalogue
Dari and Tajik bridgesIDCDC-PER-07 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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Writing

1 script

Its own names

тоҷикӣtojikī
left to right

Scripts

Cyrl
Tajik Cyrillic alphabetа б в г ғ д е ё
35 letters
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Resources

1 resource
Glottolog: Tajikreference · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · checked 2026-10-23
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Linguistics

family, dialects, sounds and standing
Family
Indo-European, then Classical Indo-European, then Indo-Iranian, then Iranian-Nuristani, then Iranian, then Southwestern Iranian, then Middle-Modern Persian, then Modern Southwestern Iranian, then Farsic-Caucasian Tat, then Farsic, then Eastern Farsic, then Tajikic
Codes
ISO 639-3 tgk · macrolanguage fas · Glottolog taji1245
Dialects
Tajik: Badakhshan, Darwazi, Derbent, Goron, Hissar Tajik, Karatag, Kuljub, Lyuli, Matchin, Vaxio-Bolo (9 listed in all)
Standing
Tajik: not endangered (1 (National)) secondary
Sounds
23 consonants and 6 vowels, after Ido 2014 · the inventory verified

b ɕ d̪ dʑ f ɡ h j k l m n p q ɾ ʁ s t̪ tɕ v z ʑ χ ä e i o ɵ u

Tajikic
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Tajik and Persian

Tajik is Persian of Central Asia, written in Cyrillic. Many linguists treat it as a standard of one Persian language. Glottolog and ISO 639-3 list it as a separate language (tgk).

to verify · Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.; Perry. A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar. Brill.

In law

The Constitution of Tajikistan (Article 2) makes Tajik the state language.Constitute Project. Constitutions of the world, English translations.
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Speakers

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Year
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Status
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1 course
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Dari and Tajik bridgesIDCDC-PER-07 · Open for enrolment on study.iranians.global
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