Who speaks Tajik in the world?

Tajikistan
Tajik is the official language and is spoken by most people in Tajikistan. A member of the southwest group of Iranian languages, it is closely related to the mutually intelligible dialects of Farsi and Dari in Iran and Afghanistan, respectively, though it differs from these…

What is the Tajik dialect?

Tajiki
Tajikistan/Official languages

What do Tajik people speak?

The name Tajik refers to the traditionally sedentary people who speak a form of Persian called Tajik in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and who speak the modern Persian language in Afghanistan.

Who are the Tajiks in Afghanistan?

Tajiks (Persian: تاجيک‎: Tājīk, Tajik: Тоҷик) are an Iranian people, speaking a variety of Persian with present-day homelands in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. In China, the term is used to refer to its Pamiri ethnic group, the Tajiks of Xinjiang, who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages.

What is the official language of Afghanistan Dari?

The Persian language in Afghanistan was officially renamed Dari in the country’s 1964 constitution, and the practice has since persisted. Dari is a medieval synonym for Persian that means “language of the court” as the Persian language was widely used in princely courts in the eastern Islamic world.

Why are there so many Persian speakers in Afghanistan?

After all, most Persian-speakers (and leaders) in Afghanistan are Sunni, not Shia, and have strong local identities and concerns deeply rooted in their localities and fiefs; their geopolitical horizons are often more closely oriented toward South Asia or Central Asia than Iran, with the exception of Herat in the far-west.

Is Farsi and Dari the same language?

As a result, the Persian language is called Farsi in Iran, Dari in Afghanistan, and Tajik in Tajikistan. This has led many to believe that the three aforementioned languages are actually separate, though albeit closely related languages, and in fact, not the same language.