About Persian Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Persian is popularly known as Farsi and is a Western Iranian language. It belongs to the branch of Indo- Iranian subdivisions and is also associated with Indo-European languages. This language is spoken within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. There are three standard varieties in this language that differentiates it from others. You will not be surprised to see that this language is greatly inspired by other languages. The three standard versions of Persian include Iranian, Tajiki, and Afghan Persian. Persian is also spoken in many parts of Uzbekistan and other regions of Iran. Persian is officially written in the different alphabets of Tajik while the script is written in Arabic. There are around 70 million native speakers of Persian. This language belongs to Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, and Western Iranian.
About Tajik Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Tajik is a form of Persian that is spoken in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Kazakhstan. The total number of Tajik speakers is 8 million that including 6.3 million in Tajikistan itself. You will be surprised to know that the Persian language in Tajikistan was renamed Tajik by Stalin in 1932. This was done to differentiate Persian speakers in Iran and Central Asia. Before 1928 Tajik was written in Perso-Arabic script. However, from 1928 to 1940 it was modified with the Cyrillic alphabet. There were a lot of people who wanted to switch it to the Latin alphabet. The Tajik dialects are separated into northern, central, southern, and Southeastern dialects. Most of the politicians and other officials usually make their speeches in the Kulob dialect. There is a total of six vowels in this language.
