Tajik language
- noun
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idioma tayiko
- 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
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
The language spoken in Tajikistan that is similar to Persian
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.