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Despite their name, Tajiks in China are not ethnic Tajiks but ethnic Pamiris, a different Iranian ethnic group who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages.. Early 20th-century CE travelers to the region referred to the group as "Mountain Tajiks", [3] or by the Turkic exonym "Ghalcha". [4]
Tajik, [2] [a] Tajik Persian, Tajiki Persian, [b] also called Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari of Afghanistan with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of the Persian language. Several scholars consider Tajik as a dialectal ...
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Sarikoli language, spoken by Tajiks in China and officially referred to as the Tajik language in China; The Arabic-schooled, ethnically Persian administrative officials of the Turco-Persian society; List of Tajikistani records in athletics; List of Tajikistani detainees at Guantanamo Bay
Sarikoli is officially referred to as "Tajik" (Chinese: 塔吉克语, Tǎjíkèyǔ) in China. [5]However, it is distantly related to Tajik (a form of Persian) as spoken in Tajikistan because Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language, closely related to other Pamir languages largely spoken in the Badakhshan regions of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, whereas Persian is a Western Iranian language and ...
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ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2 ] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3 , defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...
The Tor Tajiks are a Iranic people and they are ethnically Tajiks (an Iranic people who speak the Tajik language).Officially, Tor Tajiks are regarded as "Tajik", one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the government of China.