Tajik

Person from Dushanbe's country

Tajik refers to the people native to Tajikistan and neighboring regions of Central Asia, or their language.

The Tajik language is a variety of Persian, written in Cyrillic script since the Soviet era.

As an adjective, Tajik describes things relating to this people or culture: Tajik cuisine, Tajik traditions.

Also spelled Tadzhik.

ethnicities

Persian

Of or from Iran

  • UzbekCentral Asian Turkic speaker
  • PashtunAfghan ethnic majority
  • KyrgyzCentral Asian Turkic people

Kazakh · Turkmen · Afghan · Iranian · Russian · Uyghur · Dari · Sunni · Central Asian

language

Farsi

Iran's native tongue

dialect · script · Indo-European · literary · poetry · calligraphy · bilingual · Russian · Uzbek

culture

Nowruz

Iranian New Year festival

poetry · silk · carpet · dance · wedding

geography

Hindu Kush

Asian mountain range

Central Asia · Afghanistan · glacier

Opposites
Central Asian ethnic/national identity

TajikUzbek

Central Asian Turkic speaker

Kyrgyz · Kazakh · Turkmen · Uyghur · Turkish

Family

Tajikistan

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G