Tajik language

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Tajik, Tajik Persian, Tajiki Persian, also called Tajiki, as well as sometimes referred to as Eastern Persian, is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by ethnic Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari in Afghanistan, with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of Persian. Several scholars consider Tajik to be a dialectal variety of Persian rather than a language in its own right. The question of whether Tajik and Persian should be considered two dialects of a single language or two discrete languages has political aspects to it. Through Early New Persian, Tajik, like Iranian Persian and Dari Persian, is a continuation of Middle Persian, the official administrative, religious, and literary language of the Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE), itself a continuation of Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BC). Tajiki is one of the two official languages of Tajikistan, the other being Russian, which serves as...

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