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Preferred term

tgkTajik  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Tajik, Tajik Persian, or Tajiki, (sometimes written Tadjik or Tadzhik; , , ) is a variety of modern Persian spoken in Central Asia. Historically Tajiks called their language zabani farsī , meaning Persian language in English; the term zabani tajikī, or Tajik language, was introduced in the 20th century by the Soviets. Most speakers of Tajik live in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Tajik is the official language of Tajikistan.

Entry terms

  • Tajik language

ISO 639-1 code

  • tg

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • tgk

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • tgk

ISO 639-3 code

  • tgk

Notation

  • tgk

In other languages

  • tadjik

    French

  • Tadjik
  • Tadschikisch

    German

  • Tadschikische Sprache
  • tagicco

    Italian

  • Lingua tagica
  • Portuguese

  • Língua tadjique
  • tadjique
  • tayiko

    Spanish

  • Idioma tayiko

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tgk

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