The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
| Population | 3,344,720 in Tajikistan (1991), 98% speak it as mother tongue. Population total all countries 4,380,000. |
| Region | Also spoken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia (Asia), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. |
| Alternate names | TADZHIK, TAJIKI PERSIAN, GALCHA |
| Classification | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian. |
| Comments | 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. |
