Tadzhik


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Synonyms for Tadzhik

a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China

an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China

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the Iranian language of the Tajik that is closely related to Farsi

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The predominantly Tadzhik (9 per cent of the population) and Uzbek (9 per cent) Northern Alliance (hostile to Pakistan but already receiving support from neighbouring Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), is unlikely to be acceptable as a national government to the country's Pashtun (52 per cent) majority.
Although initially represented as an unspecified exotic landscape, the location of Dzhul'bars emerges as Pamir, the mountain range that runs through what was at that time Tadzhik SSSR, on the border with Afghanistan.
The fifth (Tadzhik) is an Indo-European language related to Farsi (Persian); it is written in the Farsi alphabet, which is itself a variant of the Arabic alphabet.
(in 000) Russian SFSR 6,592,800 146,000 Ukrainian SSR 233,100 51,377 Uzbek SSR 172,700 19,569 Kazakh SSR 1,049,200 16,470 Byelorussian SSR 80,200 10,141 Azerbaijan SSR 33,400 6,921 Georgian SSR 26,911 5,297 Tadzhik SSR 54,019 4,969 Moldavian SSR 13,012 4,224 Kirghiz SSR 76,642 4,238 Lithuanian SSR 26,173 3,682 Armenian SSR 11,306 3,459 Turkmen SSR 188,417 3,455 Latvian SSR 24,695 2,673 Estonian SSR 17,413 1,571
The highest share of consumption imports (27-29 percent) is characteristic of the Georgian, Moldavian, Kirghiz, Tadzhik, and Armenian SSRs and the Baltic republic.