Tajik
language spoken in Tajikistan
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Tajik has the country Tajikistan.[1].
Key Facts
- Country: Tajikistan[3], Afghanistan[4], Uzbekistan[5], Kazakhstan[6], Kyrgyzstan[7]
- Instance of: modern language[8], Persian dialect[9], official language[10], natural language[11]
- Subclass of: Persian language in Tajikistan[12]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[13], Persian alphabet[14], Latin script[15], Tajik Cyrillic alphabet[16], Hebrew alphabet[17]
- Commons category: Tajik language[18]
- Wikimedia language code: tg[19]
- Has part(s): Standard Tajik[20], Colloquial Tajik[21]
- Topic's main category: Category:Tajik language[22]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 14,000,000[23]
- Topic has template: Q72058870[24]
- Native label: форсии тоҷикӣ[25], забони тоҷикӣ[26], тоҷикӣ[27], забони форсии тоҷикӣ[28], toçikī[29], zaboni toçikī[30], تاجیکی[31], زبان تاجیکی[32]
- Short name: tacikcə[33], тоҷикӣ[34], таджикский[35], таджикаг[36], тәжікше[37]
- Indigenous to: Tajiks[38]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TGK[39]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[40], dative case[41], locative case[42], ezāfe[43], proprietive case[44]
- Has tense: present tense[45], past tense[46], future tense[47]
- Has grammatical mood: imperative[48], indicative[49], conditional[50]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[51]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[52]
Why It Matters
Tajik has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[53] Tajik is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[54]