Tajik alphabet

Short description: Alphabet used to write the Tajik language

Tajik Cyrillic alphabet
Алифбои кирилии тоҷикӣ
الفبای كيريلى تاجیکی
Alifboji kirilii toçikī

The coat of arms of the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic c. 1929. "Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" is written in Tajik Latin, Tajik Arabic and Russian Cyrillic

Type|

Alphabet

Languages| Tajik, Bukharian

Time period

| c. 7th century CE - present

Parent systems

Egyptian hieroglyphs

* Phoenician alphabet
* Greek alphabet (partly Glagolitic alphabet)
* Early Cyrillic alphabet
* Russian alphabet
* Tajik Cyrillic alphabet

Direction| Left-to-right
ISO 15924| `Cyrl, 220`

Unicode alias

| Cyrillic
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Another version of the 1929 coat of arms without Tajik Latin. The Tajik Arabic reads جمهوریت اجتماعی شوروی مختار تاجیکستان

The Tajik language has been written in three alphabets over the course of its history: the Perso-Arabic, Latin and nowadays Cyrillic script.[1]

The use of a specific alphabet generally corresponds with stages in history, with Arabic being used first for most of the time, followed by Latin, as a result of the Soviet takeover, for a short period and then Cyrillic, which remains the most widely used alphabet in Tajikistan. The Bukhori dialect spoken by Bukharan Jews traditionally used the Hebrew alphabet, but today is written using the Cyrillic variant.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Political context
* 2 History
* 3 Variants
* 3.1 Persian alphabet
* 3.2 Latin
* 3.3 Cyrillic
* 3.4 Transliteration standards
* 3.5 Hebrew
* 4 Samples
* 4.1 Tajik Cyrillic, Tajik Latin and Persian alphabet
* 4.2 Tajik Cyrillic and Persian alphabet
* 5 Comparative table
* 6 See also
* 7 Notes
* 8 References
* 9 External links

## Political context

As with many post-Soviet states, the change in writing system and the debates surrounding it is closely intertwined with political themes. Although not having been used since the adoption of Cyrillic, the Latin script is supported by those who wish to bring the country closer to Uzbekistan, which has adopted the Latin-based Uzbek alphabet.[3] The Persian alphabet is supported by the devoutly religious, Islamists, and by those who wish to bring the country closer to Iran, Afghanistan, and their Persian heritage. As the de facto standard, the Cyrillic alphabet is generally supported by those who wish to maintain the status quo, and not distance the country from Russia.

## History

As a result of the influence of Islam in the region, Tajik was written in the Persian alphabet up to the 1920s. Until this time, the language was not thought of as separate and simply considered a dialect of the Persian language.[need quotation to verify] The Soviets began by simplifying the Persian alphabet in 1923, before moving to a Latin-based system in 1927.[4] The Latin script was introduced by the Soviet Union as part of an effort to increase literacy and distance the, at that time, largely illiterate population, from the Islamic Central Asia. There were also practical considerations. The regular Persian alphabet, being an abjad, does not provide sufficient letters for representing the vowel system of Tajik. In addition, the abjad is more difficult to learn, each letter having different forms depending on the position in the word.[5]

As part of the "russification" of Central Asia, the Cyrillic script was introduced in the late 1930s.[6][7] The alphabet remained Cyrillic until the end of the 1980s with the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In 1989, with the growth in Tajik nationalism, a law was enacted declaring Tajik the state language. In addition, the law officially equated Tajik with Persian, placing the word Farsi (the endonym for the Persian language) after Tajik. The law also called for a gradual reintroduction of the Perso-Arabic alphabet.[8]

The Persian alphabet was introduced into education and public life, although the banning of the Islamic Renaissance Party in 1993 slowed down the adoption. In 1999, the word Farsi was removed from the state-language law.[9] As of 2004[update] the de facto standard in use was the Cyrillic alphabet[10] and as of 1996[update], only a very small part of the population could read the Persian alphabet.[11]

## Variants

The letters of the major versions of the Tajik alphabet are presented below, along with their phonetic values. There is also a comparative table below.

### Persian alphabet

A variant of the Persian alphabet (technically an abjad) is used to write Tajik. In the Tajik version, as with all other versions of the Arabic script, with the exception of ا (alef), vowels are not given unique letters, but rather optionally indicated with diacritic marks.

The Tajik alphabet in Persian ح | چ | ج | ث | ت | پ | ب | ا

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/h/ | /tʃ/ | /dʒ/ | /s/ | /t/ | /p/ | /b/ | /ɔː/
ش | س | ژ | ز | ر | ذ | د | خ
/ʃ/ | /s/ | /ʒ/ | /z/ | /ɾ/ | /z/ | /d/ | /χ/
ف | ق | غ | ع | ظ | ط | ض | ص
/f/ | /q/ | /ʁ/ | /ʔ/ | /z/ | /t/ | /z/ | /s/
ی | ه | و | ن | م | ل | گ | ک |
/j/ | /h/ | /v/ | /n/ | /m/ | /l/ | /ɡ/ | /k/ |

### Latin

The front page of Kommunisti Isfara from 15 May 1936

The Latin script was introduced after the Russian Revolution of 1917 in order to facilitate an increase in literacy and distance the language from Islamic influence. Only lowercase letters were found in the first versions of the Latin variant, between 1926 and 1929. A slightly different version used by Jews speaking the Bukhori dialect included three extra characters for phonemes not found in the other dialects: ů, ə̧, and ḩ.[12] ḩ in particular represented the voiceless pharyngeal fricative /ħ/, a feature of the Bukhori dialect.[13]

The 1917 Latin Tajik alphabet A a | B ʙ | C c | Ç ç | D d | E e | F f | G g | Ƣ ƣ

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/æ/ | /b/ | /tʃ/ | /dʒ/ | /d/ | /eː/ | /f/ | /ɡ/ | /ʁ/
H h | I i | Ī ī | J j | K k | L l | M m | N n | O o
/h/ | /i/ | /ˈi/ | /j/ | /k/ | /l/ | /m/ | /n/ | /ɔː/
P p | Q q | R r | S s | Ş ş | T t | U u | Ū ū | V v
/p/ | /q/ | /ɾ/ | /s/ | /ʃ/ | /t/ | /u/ | /ɵː/ | /v/
X x | Z z | Ƶ ƶ | ʼ
/χ/ | /z/ | /ʒ/ | /ʔ/

The unusual character Ƣ is called Gha and represents the phoneme /ʁ/. The character is found in Yañalif in which most non-Slavic languages of the Soviet Union were written until the late 1930s. The Latin alphabet is not widely used today, although its adoption is advocated by certain groups.[3]

### Cyrillic

The Cyrillic script was introduced in Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in the late 1930s, replacing the Latin script that had been used since the October Revolution. After 1939, materials published in Persian in the Persian alphabet were banned from the country.[14] The alphabet below was supplemented by the letters Щ and Ы in 1952.

Text detail from the reverse of the 1 rouble note. The rouble was replaced in 2000 as a result of increasing inflation. The current Tajik alphabet. The Cyrillic Tajik alphabet А а | Б б | В в | Г г | Ғ ғ

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а | бе | ве | ге | ғе
/æ/ | /b/ | /v/ | /ɡ/ | /ʁ/
Д д | Е е | Ё ё | Ж ж | З з
де | е (йэ) | ё (йо) | же | зе
/d/ | /jeː/, /eː/ | /jɔː/ | /ʒ/ | /z/
И и | Ӣ ӣ | Й й | К к | Қ қ
и | и дароз | и кӯтоҳ | ке | қе
/i/ | /iː/ | /j/ | /k/ | /q/
Л л | М м | Н н | О о | П п
ле | ме | не | о | пе
/l/ | /m/ | /n/ | /ɔː/ | /p/
Р р | С с | Т т | У у | Ӯ ӯ
ре | се | те | у | ӯ
/ɾ/ | /s/ | /t/ | /u/ | /ɵː/
Ф ф | Х х | Ҳ ҳ | Ч ч | Ҷ ҷ
фе | хе | ҳе | че | ҷе
/f/ | /χ/ | /h/ | /tʃ/ | /dʒ/
Ш ш | Ъ ъ | Э э | Ю ю | Я я
ше | аломати сакта | э | ю (йу) | я (йа)
/ʃ/ | /ʔ/ | /eː/ | /ju/ | /jæ/

Before 1998, the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet contained 39 letters in the following order: а б в г д е ё ж з и й к л м н о п р с т у ф х ц ч ш щ ъ ы ь э ю я ғ ӣ қ ӯ ҳ ҷ (the 33 letters of the Russian alphabet and 6 additional letters as distinct letters at the end). The letters ц, щ and ы were used only in loanwords; the letter ь was used in the combinations ье, ьё, ью, ья (for /jeː, jɔː, ju, jæ/ after consonants) and in loanwords. The letters ц, щ, ы, and ь were officially dropped from the alphabet in the 1998 reform. Loanwords are now respelled using native Tajik letters: тс after vowels, otherwise с for ц; ш for щ; и for ы; ь is replaced by й in ье (also ьи, ьо in loanwords), dropped otherwise (including ьё, ью, ья). Along with the deprecation of these letters, the 1998 reform also changed the order of the alphabet, which now has the characters with diacritics following their unaltered partners, e.g. г, ғ and к, қ, etc.[15] leading to the present order (35 letters): а б в г ғ д е ё ж з и ӣ й к қ л м н о п р с т у ӯ ф х ҳ ч ҷ ш ъ э ю я. In 2010, it was suggested that the letters е ё ю я might be dropped as well.[16] The letters е and э represent the same sound, except that э is used at the beginning of a word (ex. Эрон, "Iran"). The sound combination /jeː/ is represented by е at the beginning of words, otherwise by йе.

The alphabet includes a number of letters not found in the Russian alphabet:

Description  | Г with bar | И with macron | К with descender | У with macron | Х with descender | Ч with descender

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Letter  | Ғ | Ӣ | Қ | Ӯ | Ҳ | Ҷ
Phoneme  | /ʁ/ | /ˈi/ | /q/ | /ɵː/ | /h/ | /dʒ/

During the period when the Cyrillicization took place, Ӷ ӷ also appeared a few times in the table of the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet.[17]

### Transliteration standards

The transliteration standards for the Tajik alphabet in Cyrillic into the Latin alphabet are as follows:

Cyrillic  | IPA | ISO 9 (1995) 1 | KNAB (1981) 2 | WWS (1996) 3 | ALA-LC 4 | Allworth 5 | BGN/PCGN 6 | KSNG (2005)  | Perso-Arabic equivalent

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А а | /æ/ | a | a | a | a | a | a | a | ا
Б б | /b/ | b | b | b | b | b | b | b | ب
В в | /v/ | v | v | v | v | v | v | v | و
Г г | /ɡ/ | g | g | g | g | g | g | g | گ
Ғ ғ | /ʁ/ | ġ | gh | gh | ḡ | gh | gh | ġ | غ
Д д | /d/ | d | d | d | d | d | d | d | د
Е е | /jeː, eː/ | e | e, ye | e | e | ye‐, ‐e‐ | e | e | اى
Ё ё | /jɔː/ | ë | yo | ë | ë | yo | yo | ë | یآ
Ж ж | /ʒ/ | ž | zh | zh | ž | zh | zh | ž | ژ
З з | /z/ | z | z | z | z | z | z | z | ز, ذ, ظ, ض
И и | /i/ | i | i | i | i | i | i | i | اى
Ӣ ӣ | /ɘ/ | ī | ī | ī | ī | ī | í | ī | يى
Й й | /j/ | j | y | ĭ | j | y | y | j | ى
К к | /kʰ/ | k | k | k | k | k | k | k | ک
Қ қ | /qʰ/ | ķ | q | q | ķ | q | q | ķ | ق
Л л | /l/ | l | l | l | l | l | l | l | ل
М м | /m/ | m | m | m | m | m | m | m | م
Н н | /n/ | n | n | n | n | n | n | n | ن
О о | /ɔː/ | o | o | o | o | o | o | o | آ
П п | /pʰ/ | p | p | p | p | p | p | p | پ
Р р | /r/ | r | r | r | r | r | r | r | ر
С с | /s/ | s | s | s | s | s | s | s | س, ث, ص
Т т | /tʰ/ | t | t | t | t | t | t | t | ت, ط
У у | /u/ | u | u | u | u | u | u | u | ‌ۇ‌‌
Ӯ ӯ | /ɵː/ | ū | ū | ū | ū | ū | ŭ | ū | و
Ф ф | /f/ | f | f | f | f | f | f | f | ف
Х х | /χ/ | h | kh | kh | x | kh | kh | h | خ
Ҳ ҳ | /h/ | ḩ | h | ḩ | x | h | h | ḩ | ه, ح
Ч ч | /tʃʰ/ | č | ch | ch | č | ch | ch | č | چ
Ҷ ҷ | /dʒ/ | ç | j | j | č̦ | j | j | ğ | ج
Ш ш | /ʃ/ | š | sh | sh | š | sh | sh | š | ش
Ъ ъ | /ʔ/ | ' | ' | ' | ' | " | ' | ' | ء, ع
Э э | /eː/ | è | è, e | ė | è | e | ė | è | اى
Ю ю | /ju/ | û | yu | i͡u | ju | yu | yu | û | يۇ
Я я | /jæ/ | â | ya | i͡a | ja | ya | ya | â | يا

Notes to the table above:

1. ISO 9 — The International Organization for Standardization ISO 9 specification.
2. KNAB — From the placenames database of the Institute of the Estonian Language.
3. WWS — From World's Writing Systems, Bernard Comrie (ed.)
4. ALA-LC — The standard of the Library of Congress and the American Library Association.
5. Edward Allworth, ed. Nationalities of the Soviet East. Publications and Writing Systems (NY: Columbia University Press, 1971)
6. BGN/PCGN — The standard of the United States Board on Geographic Names and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use.
7. KSNG – The standard of the Commission on Standardization of Geographical Names Outside the Republic of Poland (Komisja Standaryzacji Nazw Geograficznych poza Granicami Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej)[18]

### Hebrew

The Hebrew alphabet (an abjad like the Persian alphabet) is used for the Jewish Bukhori dialect primarily in Samarkand and Bukhara.[19][20] Additionally, since 1940, when Jewish schools were closed in Central Asia, the use of the Hebrew Alphabet outside Hebrew liturgy fell into disuse and Bukharian Jewish publications such as books and newspapers began to appear using the Tajik Cyrillic Alphabet. Today, many older Bukharian Jews who speak Bukharian and went to Tajik or Russian schools in Central Asia only know the Tajik Cyrillic Alphabet when reading and writing Bukharian and Tajik.

The Tajik alphabet in Hebrew גׄ | ג׳ | ג | גּ | בּ | ב | אֵי | אִי | אוּ | אוֹ | אָ | אַ

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/dʒ/ | /tʃ/ | /ʁ/ | /ɡ/ | /b/ | /v/ | /e/ | /i/ | /u/ | /ɵ/ | /ɔ/ | /a/
מ ם | ל | כּ ךּ | כ ך | י | טּ | ט | ח | ז׳ | ז | ו | ה | דּ | ד
/m/ | /l/ | /k/ | /χ/ | /j/ | /t/ | /s/ | /ħ/ | /ʒ/ | /z/ | /v/ | /h/ | /d/ | /z/
תּ | ת | שׂ | שׁ | ר | ק | צ ץ | פּ ףּ | פ ף | ע | ס | נ ן
/t/ | /s/ | /s/ | /ʃ/ | /r/ | /q/ | /ts/ | /p/ | /f/ | /ʔ/ | /s/ | /n/
Sample text | Corresponding Cyrillic text

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דר מוקאבילי זולם איתיפאק נמאייד. מראם נאמה פרוגרמי פירקהי יאש בוכארייאן.

Дар муқобили зулм иттифоқ намоед. Муромнома – пруграми фирқаи ёш бухориён.[21]

## Samples

### Tajik Cyrillic, Tajik Latin and Persian alphabet

Cyrillic | Latin | Persian | Hebrew | English Translation

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Тамоми одамон озод ба дунё меоянд ва аз лиҳози манзилату ҳуқуқ бо ҳам баробаранд. Ҳама соҳиби ақлу виҷдонанд, бояд нисбат ба якдигар бародарвор муносабат намоянд. | Tamomi odamon ozod ba dunjo meojand va az lihozi manzilatu huquq bo ham barobarand. Hama sohibi aqlu viçdonand, bojad nisbat ba jakdigar barodarvor munosabat namojand. | تمام آدمان آزاد به دنیا می‌آیند و از لحاظ منزلت و حقوق با هم برابرند. همه صاحب عقل و وجدانند، باید نسبت به یکدیگر برادروار مناسبت نمایند. | תמאם אדמאן אזאד בה דניא מיאינד ואז לחאז מנזלת וחקוק בא הם בראברנד. המה צאחב עקל וג׳דאננד، באיד נסבת בה יכדיגר בראדרואר מנאסבת נמאינד. | All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

For reference, the Persian script variant transliterated letter-for-letter into the Latin script appears as follows:

> tmạm ậdmạn ậzạd bh dnyạ my̱ ậynd w ạz lḥạẓ mnzlt w ḥqwq bạ hm brạbrnd. hmh ṣḥb ʿql w wjdạnnd, bạyd nsbt bh ykdygr brạdrwạr mnạsbt nmạynd.

And the BGN/PCGN transliteration of the Cyrillic text:

> Tamomi odamon ozod ba dunyo meoyand va az lihozi manzilatu huquq bo ham barobarand. Hama sohibi aqlu vijdonand, boyad nisbat ba yakdigar barodarvor munosabat namoyand.

### Tajik Cyrillic and Persian alphabet

Vowel-pointed Persian includes the vowels that are not usually written.

Cyrillic | vowel-pointed Persian | Persian | vowel-pointed Hebrew | Hebrew

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Баниодам аъзои як пайкаранд, ки дар офариниш зи як гавҳаранд. Чу узве ба дард оварад рӯзгор, дигар узвҳоро намонад қарор. Саъдӣ | بَنی‌آدَم اَعضایِ یَک پَیکَرَند، که دَر آفَرینِش زِ یَک گَوهَرَند. چو عُضوی به دَرد آوَرَد روزگار، دِگَر عُضوها را نَمانَد قَرار. سَعدی | بنی‌آدم اعضای یک پیکرند، که در آفرینش ز یک گوهرند. چو عضوی به درد آورد روزگار، دگر عضوها را نماند قرار. سعدی | בַּנִי־אָדַם אַעְזָאי יַךּ פַּיְכַּרַנְד, כִּה דַר אָפַרִינִשׁ זִ יַךּ גַוְהַרַנְד. ג׳וּ עֻזְוֵי בַּה דַרְד אָוַרַד רוֹזְגָּאר דִגַּר עֻזְוְהָא רָא נַמָאנַד קַרָאר סַעְדִי. | בני־אדם אעזאי יך פיכרנד, כה דר אפרינש ז יך גוהרנד. ג׳ו עזוי בה דרד אורד רוזגאר דגר עזוהא רא נמאינד קראר סעדי.
Мурда будам, зинда шудам; гиря будам, xанда шудам. Давлати ишқ омаду ман давлати поянда шудам. Мавлавӣ | مُردَه بُدَم، زِندَه شُدَم؛ گِریَه بُدَم، خَندَه شُدَم. دَولَتِ عِشق آمَد و مَن دَولَتِ پایَندَه شُدَم. مَولَوی | مرده بدم، زنده شدم؛ گریه بدم، خنده شدم. دولت عشق آمد و من دولت پاینده شدم. مولوی | מֻרְדַה בֻּדַם זִנְדַה שֻׁדַם; גִּרְיַה בֻּדַם, כַנְדַה שֻׁדַם. דַוְלַתִ עִשְק אָמַד וּמַן דַוְלַתִ פָּאיַנְדַה שֻׁדַם. מַוְלַוִי | מרדה בדם זנדה שדם; גריה בדם, כנדה שדם. דולת עשק אמד ומן דולת פאינדה שדם. מולוי

## Comparative table

Advertisement in Cyrillic for the admission of the graduate students by the research institutes of the Tajik Academy of Sciences A biscriptal sign incorporating an English word, "Zenith", written in the Latin script, and Tajik written in Cyrillic An illustration from Kommunisti Isfara, a newspaper published in Isfara in northern Tajikistan, inviting citizens to vote in the local labor councils elections on 29 December 1939. The text reads: Dekabr 29, Rūzi 5-m şaşrūza, Hama ba intixobho ba sovethoji mahalliji deputathoji mehnatkaşon.

A table comparing the different writing systems used for the Tajik alphabet. The Latin here is based on the 1929 standard, the Cyrillic on the revised 1998 standard, and Persian letters are given in their stand-alone forms.

Cyrillic  | Latin  | Persian  | IPA | Examples

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А а  | A a  | اَ، ـَ، ـَه  | /a/ | санг sang سَنگ /saŋg/ 'stone'
Б б  | B b  | ﺏ  | /b/ | барг barg بَرگ /baɾg/ 'leaf'
В в  | V v  | و  | /v/ | номвар nomvar نَاموَر /nɔmˈʋaɾ/ 'renowned'
Г г  | G g  | گ  | /ɡ/ | гавҳар gavhar گَوهَر /gaʋˈhaɾ/ 'gem'
Ғ ғ  | Ƣ ƣ  | ﻍ  | /ʁ/ | ғор g'or غَار /ʁɔɾ/ 'cave'
Д д  | D d  | ﺩ  | /d/ | модар modar مَادَر /mɔˈdaɾ/ 'mother'
Е е  | E e  | ای، ـی  | /e/ | шер sher شیر /ʃeɾ/ 'lion'
Ё ё  | Jo jo  | یا  | /jɔ/ | дарё daryo دَریَا /daɾˈjɔ/ 'sea'
Ж ж  | Ƶ ƶ  | ژ  | /ʒ/ | жола zhola ژَالَه /ʒɔˈla/ 'dew'
З з  | Z z  | ﺯ، ﺫ، ﺽ، ﻅ  | /z/ | замин zamin زَمِین /zaˈmin/ 'earth'
И и  | I i, Ji ji  | اِ، ـِ، ـِه؛ اِیـ، ـِیـ  | /i/ | Микоил Mikoyil مِیکَائِیل /mikoˈil/ 'Michael'
Ӣ ӣ  | Ī ī  | ـِی  | /í/ | зебоӣ zeboiy زیبَائِی /zebɔˈi/ 'beauty'
Й й  | J j  | ی  | /j/ | май may مَی /maj/ 'May'
К к  | K k  | ک  | /kʰ/ | кадом kadom کَدَام /kʰaˈdɔm/ 'which'
Қ қ  | Q q  | ﻕ  | /q/ | қадам qadam قَدَم /qaˈdam/ 'step'
Л л  | L l  | ﻝ  | /l/ | лола lola لَالَه /lɔˈla/ 'tulip'
М м  | M m  | ﻡ  | /m/ | марг marg مَرگ /maɾg/ 'death'
Н н  | N n  | ﻥ  | /n/ | нон non نَان /nɔn/ 'bread'
О о  | O o  | آ، ـا  | /ɔ/ | орзу orzu آرزُو /ɔɾˈzu/ 'wish'
П п  | P p  | پ  | /pʰ/ | панҷ panj پَنج /pʰandʒ/ 'five'
Р р  | R r  | ﺭ  | /ɾ/ | ранг rang رَنگ /ɾaŋɡ/ 'colour'
С с  | S s  | ﺱ، ﺙ، ﺹ  | /s/ | сар sar سَر /saɾ/ 'head'
Т т  | T t  | ﺕ، ﻁ  | /tʰ/ | тоҷик tojik تَاجِیک /tʰɔˈdʒik/ 'Tajik'
У у  | U u  | اُ، ـُ؛ اُو، ـُو  | /u/ | дуд dud دُود /dud/ 'smoke'
Ӯ ӯ  | Ū ū  | او، ـو  | /ɵ/ | хӯрдан xo'rdan خوردَن /χɵɾˈdan/ 'to eat'
Ф ф  | F f  | ﻑ  | /f/ | фурӯғ furo'g' فُروغ /fuˈɾɵʁ/ 'lustre'
Х х  | X x  | ﺥ  | /χ/ | хондан xondan خوَاندَن /χɔnˈdan/ 'to read'
Ҳ ҳ  | H h  | ﺡ، ه  | /h/ | ҳар har هَر /haɾ/ 'each'
Ч ч  | C c  | چ  | /tʃʰ/ | чи chi چِی /tʃʰi/ 'what'
Ҷ ҷ  | Ç ç  | ﺝ  | /dʒ/ | ҷанг jang جَنگ /dʒaŋɡ/ 'war'
Ш ш  | Ş ş  | ﺵ  | /ʃ/ | шаб shab شَب /ʃab/ 'night'
Ъ ъ  | '  | ء، ﻉ  | /ʔ/ | таъриф ta'rif تَعرِیف /tʰaʔˈɾif/ 'definition'
Э э  | E e  | ای، ـی  | /e/ | Эрон Eron ایرَان /eˈɾɔn/ 'Iran'
Ю ю  | Ju ju  | یُ, یُو  | /ju/ | июн iyun اِیُون /iˈjun/ 'June'
Я я  | Ja ja  | یَ, یَه  | /ja/ | ягона yagona یَگَانَه /jaɡɔˈna/ 'unique'

## See also

* Social:Language planning - Deliberate effort to influence languages or their varieties within a speech community

## Notes

1. ↑ "Tajik language, alphabet and pronunciation". https://www.omniglot.com/writing/tajik.htm.
2. ↑ @developer (2020-05-04). "Iskandar Ding: Introduction to Tajik Persian 1 – the Alphabet" (in en-US). https://persianlanguageonline.com/iskandar-ding-introduction-to-tajik-persian-1-the-alphabet/.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Birgit N. Schlyter (2003), "Sociolinguistic Changes in Transformed Central Asian Societies", Terminogramme, ISBN 2-551-19529-2, ISSN 0225-3194, http://orient4.orient.su.se/centralasia/FocasSociolinguistic.html, retrieved 2023-03-10
4. ↑ Keller, Shoshana (2001). To Moscow, Not Mecca: The Soviet Campaign Against Islam in Central Asia, 1917-1941. Westport, CT: Praeger.
5. ↑ Dickens, M. (1988). "Soviet Language Policy in Central Asia"]. http://www.oxuscom.com/lang-policy.htm.
6. ↑ Muborak Sharipova (2008). "One More War against Women: Historical and Socio-cultural Aspects of Violence against Women in Tajikstan". in Hämmerle, Christa. Gender Politics in Central Asia: Historical Perspectives and Current Living Conditions of Women. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. pp. 67–94. ISBN 978-3-412-20140-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=c5kXyj82xfQC&pg=PA76.

Landau, Yaʿaqov (Jacob) M.; Kellner-Heinkele, Barbara (2001). "Alphabet Change and Implementation". Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States: Azerbayjan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. University of Michigan Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-472-11226-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=arF2f10EQYUC&pg=PA125.
7. ↑ Habib Borjian (2005). "Tajikstan V. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias". Encyclopædia Iranica. https://iranicaonline.org/articles/tajikistan-05-dictionaries-and-encyclopedias.
8. ↑ Vitaly Naumkin (1994). "Political and Security Linkages". in Ehteshami, Anoushiravan. From the Gulf to Central Asia: Players in the New Great Game. University of Exeter Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-85989-451-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=sgW_HEcULMYC&pg=PA219.
9. ↑ Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in Media Insight Central Asia #27, August 2002
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13. ↑ Ido, Shinji (2017-06-15). "The Vowel System of Jewish Bukharan Tajik: With Special Reference to the Tajik Vowel Chain Shift" (in en). Journal of Jewish Languages 5 (1): 81–103. doi:10.1163/22134638-12340078. ISSN 2213-4638. "one of the 'Bukharian' alphabets proposed in the early 20th century contained a letter for /ħ/, namely ‹ⱨ›.".
14. ↑ Perry, J. R. (1996). "Tajik literature: Seventy years is longer than the millennium". World Literature Today 70 (3): 571–573. doi:10.2307/40042068.
15. ↑ Perry, J. R. (2005). A Tajik Persian Reference Grammar. Boston: Brill. p. 36.
16. ↑ "Ислам в СНГ: Судьба "русских букв" в таджикском алфавите будет решаться". 15 November 2010. http://www.islamsng.com/tjk/news/485.
17. ↑ Ido, S. (2005). Tajik. München: Lincom. p. 8.
18. ↑ "Zasady latynizacji alfabetu tadżyckiego". Commission on Standardization of Geographical Names Outside the Republic of Poland. https://www.gov.pl/web/ksng/inne-publikacje-ksng.
19. ↑ Gitelman, Zvi Y (2001). A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present. Indiana University Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-253-21418-8.
20. ↑ Изд-во Академии наук СССР (1975). "Вопросы языкознания". Вопросы языкознания: 39. https://books.google.com/books?bid=ox9SAQAAIAAJ&q=персидские+таджикские&dq=персидские+таджикские.
21. ↑ Rzehak, L. (2001). Vom Persischen zum Tadschikischen. Sprachliches Handeln und Sprachplanung in Transoxanien zwischen Tradition, Moderne und Sowjetunion (1900–1956). Wiesbaden: Reichert.

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## External links

* Omniglot – Tajik (Тоҷики / Toçikī / تاجیكی)
* View Cyrillic-script Tajik websites transliterated into the 1920s Latin orthography

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