Indo-European · ISO 639-3 tgk · tg
Tajik Language тоҷикӣ
Tajik is an Indo-European language spoken by about 14 million people in 3 countries. It is an official language of Tajikistan. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Tajik is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Tajik
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Iranian-Nuristani
- Iranian
- Southwestern Iranian
- Middle-Modern Persian
- Modern Southwestern Iranian
- Farsic-Caucasian Tat
- Farsic
- Eastern Farsic
- Tajikic
- Tajik
Writing system
Cyrillic script
Related languages
About the Tajik language
Tajik (тоҷикӣ) is spoken by about 14 million people, which makes it the 91st most spoken language in the world — just behind Bavarian (14 million) and ahead of Zulu (14 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Tajikic group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Tajik spoken?
Tajik is used in 3 countries. The largest communities live in Tajikistan (10 million), Pakistan (832,801) and Russia (225,313). More than half of the population speaks it in Tajikistan — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Share of the population that speaks Tajik: Tajikistan 100% (10 million), Pakistan 0.3% (832,801) and Russia 0.2% (225,313).
Tajik is an official language in 1 country: Tajikistan.
Writing system and status
Tajik is written in the Cyrillic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Dari, Hazaragi, Iranian Persian, Northern Luri, Bakhtiari, Southern Luri and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 tg, ISO 639-3 tgk.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.