Tajik language
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- Although similar to Persian, the Tajik language uses the Cyrillic alphabet in Tajikistan.
Examples
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Many students travel to Dushanbe to study the Tajik language in an immersive environment.
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She was proud of her fluency in Russian, Uzbek, and the Tajik language.
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The Tajik language is spoken by millions of people.
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Do you speak the Tajik language?
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Many students travel to Dushanbe to study the Tajik language in an immersive environment.
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Although similar to Persian, the Tajik language uses the Cyrillic alphabet in Tajikistan.
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The Tajik language is spoken by millions of people.
Synonyms
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The main language of Tajikistan, similar to Persian
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The language spoken in Tajikistan that is similar to Persian
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A language like Persian that people speak in Tajikistan and parts of Uzbekistan
A form of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and used as the country's official language
A form of Persian that the Tajik people speak mainly in Tajikistan and parts of Iran
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Tajik' names the people/region and 'language' indicates the speech system, so a learner who knows both constituents will infer it denotes the language spoken by Tajiks. This adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and non-idiomatic, making the expression immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Tajik language gets its name from the people called Tajik in Central Asia, who speak a local form of 'Persian'. That's why the Tajik language is very close to 'Persian', though in Tajikistan it uses a different alphabet called Cyrillic today.