Tajik language

The Tajik language is the official language of Tajikistan. It is a dialect of the Persian language. It was written in the Persian alphabet until 1928. From 1928 to 1939, it was written mostly in the Latin alphabet until the Soviet government forced Tajiks to write their language in Cyrillic in 1939. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajik continues to be written in Cyrillic, although now it can also be written in the Latin alphabet.

Tajik/Tajiki
тоҷикӣ (tojikī)
"Tojikī" written in Cyrillic script and Persian (Nasta'liq script)
Native to	Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Ethnicity	Tajiks
Native speakers	8.4 million (2015 census – 2015)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Iranian Southwestern Iranian Persian Tajik/Tajiki
Writing system	Cyrillic, Latin
Official status
Official language in	Tajikistan
Recognised minority language in	Uzbekistan  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan
Language codes
ISO 639-1	tg
ISO 639-2	tgk
ISO 639-3	tgk
Glottolog	taji1245
Linguasphere	58-AAC-ci
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