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LingoBear creates short Tajik passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Southwestern Iranian variety of Persian, 35-letter Cyrillic alphabet (with ҷ, ҳ, ӣ, ӯ, қ, ғ), no grammatical gender, SOV word order, ~10M speakers.

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Is Tajik the same language as Persian?

Tajik (тоҷикӣ, tojiki) is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, sister to Iranian Farsi and Afghan Dari. About 10 million people speak it. The three are largely mutually intelligible, though Tajik vocabulary has more Russian and Turkic loanwords and uses a different script. Spoken Tajik and Dari are particularly close because Tajik long preserved features of pre-modern Khorasani Persian.

What script does Tajik use?

Modern Tajik is written in a 35-letter Cyrillic alphabet, adopted in 1939 to replace the Latin alphabet used briefly in the 1930s, which had itself replaced the Perso-Arabic script. The Cyrillic alphabet adds ҷ, ҳ, ӣ, ӯ, қ and ғ to represent Persian-specific sounds. Since the 1990s there has been renewed academic interest in the Perso-Arabic script alongside Cyrillic, but Cyrillic remains overwhelmingly dominant.