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Tajikistan

Languages

Description

The two official languages in Tajikistan are:

• Tajik - state language - a variant of the Persian language
• Russian - interethnic language - 90% of the population speaks Russian at various degrees.

Minority languages include:

• Uzbek - the second most widely spoken language after Tajik.
• Pamir languages
• Kyrgyz
• Yaghnobi

The highly educated of Tajikistan prefer to speak Persian and Russian.

Word List(s)

• Tajik phrasebook - WikiTravel
• Tajik Phrases - Learn101
• Useful Uzbek phrases - Omniglot
• Uzbek phrasebook - WikiVoyage
• Uzbek Phrases - MyLanguages

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Alphabet
Tajik Persian is currently written in Cyrillic script. Prior to 1928, it was written in Arabic alphabet. Beginning in 1928, it was changed to Latin script.

• Tajik Vowels and Consonants - Wikipedia
• Perso-Arabic script for Tajik - Omniglot
• Latin alphabet for Tajik - Omniglot
• Cyrillic alphabet for Tajik - Omniglot
• Arabic alphabet for Uzbek - Omniglot
• Cyrillic alphabet for Uzbek - Omniglot
• Latin alphabet for Uzbek - Omniglot

Pronunciation

• Tajik Pronunciation - MyLanguage
• Tajik Pronunciation - Polyglot

Language Aids and Dictionaries

Dictionaries

• Dadadzhanova, I.B. English-Tajik-Russian demographic dictionary. Dushanbe: RTSU, 2010. Available at: WorldCat.
• Jān, Jī. Ār. Persian/Tajik-Kashmiri-English dictionary. Srinagar: Jaykay Books, 2013. Available at: WorldCat.
• Jilani, Jon. Tajik practical dictionary : Tajik-English English-Tajik. New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc, 2009. Available at: WorldCat.

Online Dictionaries

• Dictionary English - Tajik - Glosbe
• Dictionary Tajik - English - Glosbe
• Dictionary Russian - Tajik - Glosbe
• Dictionary Uzbek - English - Glosbe

Language Aids

• Tajik grammar - Wikipedia
• Rastorgueva, V. S. and Herbert H. Paper. A Short sketch of Tajik grammar. Mouton, Bloomington, The Hague, Netherlands: Indiana University, 1963. Available at: WorldCat.
• Parker, Philip M. Webster's Tajiki-English thesaurus dictionary. San Diego, CA: ICON, 2008. Available at: WorldCat.
• Rastorgueva, V. S. A Short sketch of Tajik grammar. Bloomington: Indiana University, 1963. Available at: WorldCat.