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Extinct: no

Family: Indo-European

Branch: Iranian

Continent: Asia

Country: Tajikistan

Region: Also spoken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (Asia), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Countries Where Spoken: 3,344,720 in Tajikistan (1991), 98% speak it as mother tongue. Population total all countries 4,380,000.

Countries Where Official: Tajikistan

Native Speakers: 3,344,720

Speakers Total: 4,380,000

Phrasebase members who speak this language at a native level: 7

Phrasebase members who speak this language at a conversational level: 7

Phrasebase members primary language they are trying to learn: 26

Phrasebase members secondary language they are trying to learn: 71

Three Letter Code: PET

Alternative Names: TADZHIK, TAJIKI PERSIAN, GALCHA

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Summary: Four groups of small dialects; no distinct boundaries. Dialect blending into Dari Persian in Afghanistan. Most Tajiki are trilingual in Northern Uzbek, Russian, and Tajiki. There is some literature. Russian sources refer to all Persian dialects in Afghanistan as 'Tajiki'. So-called 'Tajiki' in China is actually Shugni or Wakhi. There are Tajiki-speaking Gypsy communities in Soviet central Asia. National language. Cyrillic script used. Agriculturalists. Sunni Muslim. Bible 1992.

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