Tajik language

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The Tajik language is a variety of Persian spoken primarily in Tajikistan and written in the Cyrillic script.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Tajik 14
Tajik language canonical 7
Tajik Persian 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language
modern variety of Persian
closelyRelatedTo Dari Persian
linked to: Persian language

Iranian Persian
linked to: Persian language
hasGlottocode taji1245
hasISO639-1Code tg
hasISO639-2Code tgk
hasISO639-3Code tgk
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic language
Russian language
Turkic languages
hasPhonologicalFeature vowel reduction compared to Iranian Persian
historicallyPartOf Persian language continuum
linked to: Persian language
historicalWritingDirection right-to-left
historicalWritingSystem Latin script
Perso-Arabic script
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
nativeName забони тоҷикӣ
тоҷикӣ
officialLanguageOf Tajikistan
primaryRegion Central Asia
Tajikistan
recognizedMinorityLanguageIn Afghanistan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Russia
Uzbekistan
regulatesBy Committee of Language and Terminology under the Government of Tajikistan
spokenIn Afghanistan
China
Iran
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Pakistan
Russia
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
standardBasedOn Central Asian Persian dialects
standardScriptSince Cyrillic script since mid-20th century
standardVariety Dushanbe dialect-based standard
subclassOf Indo-European language
Indo-Iranian language
Persian language
Western Iranian language
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn Tajikistan
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystem Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (26)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iranian languages hasMajorLanguage Tajik language
Tajiks language Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Tajiks standardLanguageForm Tajik Persian
linked to: Tajik language
Ferghana Valley language Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Supreme Assembly of Tajikistan nativeNameLanguage Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Supreme Assembly of Tajikistan officialLanguageUsed Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Dushanbe officialLanguage Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
state emblem of the Soviet Union mottoLanguage Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Judeo-Tajik closelyRelatedTo Tajik language
Judeo-Tajik phonologyInfluencedBy Tajik phonology
linked to: Tajik language
RFE/RL languageOfWorkOrName Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Pamir languages contactWith Tajik language
Middle Persian influenced Tajik Persian
subject linked to: Middle Persian language
linked to: Tajik language
Western Persian isMutuallyIntelligibleWith Tajik Persian
linked to: Tajik language
Yaghnobi influencedBy Tajik language
Yaghnobi hasLoanwordsFrom Tajik language
Sarikoli notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Tajik (variety of Persian)
linked to: Tajik language
Ishkashimi dominantContactLanguage Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Ishkashimi languageShiftTowards Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Assembly of Representatives of Tajikistan languageUsed Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Assembly of Representatives of Tajikistan nativeNameLanguage Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Government of Tajikistan nativeNameLanguage Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR languageOfWorkOrName Tajik
linked to: Tajik language
Constitution of Tajikistan language Tajik
linked to: Tajik language