Is Tajik and Farsi same?

Farsi and Dari are two dialects of the same language, mutually intelligible in written format, but very different when spoken. Tajik too has diverged from Farsi in both script and vocabulary and they are often mutually intelligible when spoken but not when written.

Can Tajik speak Russian?

A generation ago, Russian was the primary language of Tajikistan’s cities, but today it is spoken mainly by a dwindling elite. Due to war and economic decay over the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of the best-educated Tajiks – generally Russian-speakers – have left the country.

What percentage of Tajikistan speaks Russian?

Russian is the second after national language for 79.9\% inhabitants of the Kyrgyzstan, 72.6\% – of the Armenia, 71.2\% – of the Tajikistan and for 65.3\% of the Byelorussia (Fig. 1). Noting that 27.9\%of the Moldova citizens and 23.7\% of the Tajikistan citizens speak Russian as foreign.

Are Tajik and Persian the same language?

And tajik is one of the persian accent by the way There is a small town near shiraz that the pepoal call them tajiks. Report as spam? I’m not a native tajik/persian speaker, but i know enough that the languages of Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan are the same.

What is the difference between Tajik and Dari?

Now, you have to note that Tajik and Dari, even as official languages of the respected countries, are as a dialect form of the persian language /parsi or farsi/. What some of the other members wrote as an examples of the differencies in these “three” languages are actually colloquial forms of the persian language.

Is Tajikistan a Persian country?

Tajikistan is considered a native speaking Persian enviroment and for example many American students, who may have difficulties to travel to Iran, participate in Persian language courses in Tajikistan and practice their Persian speaking with Tajiks in Dushanbe.