Languages of Tajikistan

Languages of Tajikistan
Languages of Tajikistan
	Tajik-language street signs in Dushanbe
Official	Persian Tajik (state) ; Russian (interethnic)
Recognised	Uzbek
Indigenous	Aimaqi; Bartangi; Bukhori; Ishkashimi; Khowar; Khufi; Oroshani; Pamir Kyrgyz; Parya; Rushani; Sanglechi; Shughni; Uzbek; Wakhi; Yaghnobi; Yazgulyam;
Minority	Armenian; Azerbaijani; Belarusian; Central Asian Arabic; Crimean Tatar; Dungan; Georgian; Hazaragi; Kazakh; Kyrgyz; Kurdish; Koryo-mar; Ossetian; Persian; Tatar; Turkmen; Ukrainian; Uyghur;
Immigrant	Chinese; Dari; Hindi; Kashmiri; Pashto; Punjabi; Urdu;
Foreign	Arabic; English; French; German; Italian; Mandarin Chinese; Persian; Spanish; Turkish;
Signed	Russian-Tajik Sign Language
Keyboard layout	ЙЦУКЕН (Russian) ; ЙҚУКЕН (Tajik);
Source
Alphabet	Tajik ; Tajik Braille

There are several languages of Tajikistan, most of which belong in the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages. Tajikistan officially recognizes the Tajik language – an eastern variety of Persian – as the state language, and Russian as the interethnic language. Uzbek – a Turkic language – is the third-most spoken language in the country, spoken by about 11% of the total population.

Indigenous languages native to the area include Wakhi, Yaghnobi, Parya, and the various Pamir languages. Minority languages include Armenian, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Korean, Uzbek, Uyghur, and Turkmen. Immigrant languages include Chinese, Dari, Hindi, Pashto, Punjabi, and Urdu. Foreign languages in Tajikistan include Arabic, English, French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, and Turkish.