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TAJIK ii. TAJIK PERSIAN
John Perry
Tajiki Persian is the variety of New Persian used in Central Asia. From the 1920s it was officially fostered in the USSR as the national literary language of the Tajik SSR (since 1991, the Republic of Tajikistan). It is also spoken in parts of Uzbekistan, notably in the cities of Bukhara and Samarqand.
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TAJIK iii. COLLOQUIAL TAJIKI IN COMPARISON WITH PERSIAN OF IRAN
Bahriddin Aliev and Aya Okawa
Fārsi of Iran (here called “Farsi” for short), Tajiki, and Dari are distinct branches of the Persian language, and within each branch a wide variety of local dialects exist.
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TAJIKISTAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Habib Borjian
Tajikistan’s leading research institution for coordinating and conducting theoretical and applied research projects.
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TAJIKISTAN i. STATUS OF ISLAM SINCE 1917
Muriel Atkin
Tajikistan’s population, which numbered slightly more than six million in the year 2000, consists overwhelmingly of ethnic groups which have historically been Muslim.
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TAJIKISTAN v. DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Habib Borjian
The alphabet change to Roman and then to Cyrillic (1928 and 1940) coupled with vernacularization of Tajik Persian, called for independent lexicography in Tajikistan.
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TAKLAMAKAN
Alain Cariou
The Taklamakan stretches over 337,000 square kilometers in the centre of the Tarim basin. The vast depression runs nearly 1,200 km from west to east, and is 400 km wide from north to south. It forms an elliptical, semi-open basin in the Lop Nur marsh.
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TAḴT-E SOLAYMĀN
Dietrich Huff
outstanding archeological site with substantial Sasanian and Il-khanid ruins in Azerbaijan, between Bijār and Šāhin-dež, about 30 km north-northeast of Takāb. Up to the early Islamic time the geographical name of the place and the region was Šiz.
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TAḴTI, Ḡolām-Reżā
Houchang E. Chehabi
(b. Tehran, 20 Šahrivar 1309 Š./27 August 1930; d. Tehran, 27 Ordibehešt 1347 Š./7 June 1968), freestyle wrestling champion, and Persia’s most popular athlete of the 20th century.
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ṬĀLEB
Cross-Reference
Poet and physician (d. 1015/1606-07). See ABU ṬĀLEB TABRIZI.
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ṬĀLEB ĀMOLI
Paul Losensky
Persian poet of the early 17th century (b. Mazandaran, ca. 1580; d. India, 1626-7).