Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Tajik

 

TOTAL SPEAKERS

USAGE BY COUNTRY (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE)

Official Language: Tajikistan Home Speakers: Kazakhstan, Kyrghystan, Russian, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

BACKGROUND

It belongs to the Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian family. Four groups of small dialects of the language exist with no distinct boundaries. Most Tajiki are trilingual in Northern Uzbek, Russian and Tajiki. Russian sources refer to all Persian dialects in Afghanistan as Tajiki. The so-called Tajiki in China is actually Shugni or Wakhi. There are Tajiki-speaking gypsy communities in central Asia.