Tgk

Also Known As: Tajiki Persian,Tadzhik,Galcha,Tajiki Description:   Tajik Persian, or the Tajik language, or Tajiki, (sometimes written Tadjik or Tadzhik; тоҷикӣ, تاجیکی‎, tojikī [tɔːdʒɪˈkiː]) is a modern variety of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia. Most speakers of Tajik live in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Tajik is the official language of Tajikistan. The language has diverged from Persian as spoken in Afghanistan and Iran, as a result of political borders, geographical isolation, the standardisation process, and the influence of Russian and neighbouring Turkic languages. The standard language is based on the north-western dialects of Tajik (region of old major city of Samarkand), which have been somewhat influenced by the neighbouring Uzbek language as a result of geographical proximity. Tajik also retains numerous archaic elements in its vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar that have been lost elsewhere in the Persophone world, in part due to its relative isolation in the mountains of Central Asia. The most important historically Tajik/Persian-speaking cities of Central Asia, Samarqand and Bukhara, are in present-day Uzbekistan. In Uzbekistan the Tajik are the largest part of the population of the ancient cities of Bukhara and..... full article at Wikipedia Location of Tajiki Language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/tgk/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png Rosetta Document Collection Genesis Translation: 1 (download) (browse) Orthography: 1 (download) (browse) Universal Declaration Of Human Rights: 1 (download) (browse)

Overview Main Country: Tajikistan Spoken In: Regions: Asia ISO 639-1 Code: tg ISO 639-3 Code: tgk Classification Taxonomy All Languages   Indo-European Group     Indo-Iranian Group       Iranian Group         Western Iranian Group           Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Southwestern Western Group             Persian Group               Tajiki Language