Tajiks

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Tajiks are a group of various Persianate Eastern Iranian peoples native to Central Asia, living predominantly in Afghanistan and Tajikistan with substantial minorities in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan and the second-largest in both Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. They speak varieties of Persian, a West Iranian language. In Tajikistan, since the 1939 Soviet census, the small Pamiri and Yaghnobi ethnic groups have been included as Tajiks. In China, the term is used to refer to the Pamiri ethnic groups of Xinjiang, who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages. In Afghanistan, the Pamiris are considered a separate ethnic group. As a self-designation, the literary New Persian term Tajik, which originally had some pejorative usage as a label for eastern Persians or Iranians, has become acceptable during the last several decades, particularly as a result of Soviet administration in Central Asia. Alternative names for the Tajiks are Fārsīwān (Persian-speaker...

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