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Tajik people

Ethnic group
GroupTajiks
(تاجیک  )
Populationca. 21 to 29 million
Afghanistan
 (varying estimates)
10,900,000
8,055,000
Tajikistan6100000
Uzbekistan
 (suggestive estimates)
1,406,000
7-9,000,000
Pakistan1220000
Iran500000
Russia120000
Germany90000
Qatar87000
US52000
Kyrgyzstan47500
China41028
Canada15870

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Tajik ( Tājīk; ) is a general designation for a wide range of Persian-speaking people of Iranic origin, with traditional homelands in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Smaller community also live in Iran and Pakistan; they are mostly refugees from Afghanistan.

The Tajiks are in terms of language, culture, and history closely related to the Persian-speakers of Iran.

As a self-designation, the term Tajik, which earlier on had been more or less pejorative, has become acceptable only during the last decades, particularly as a result of Soviet administration in Central Asia. Alternative names for the Tajiks are Fārsī (Persian), Fārsīwān (Persian-speaker), and Dīhgān (cf. , literally "farmer or settled villager", in a wider sense "settled" in contrast to "nomadic").

The Tajiks of China, although known by the name Tajik, speak Eastern Iranian languages and are distinct from Persian Tajiks.


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