Your Ultimate Guide to The Languages of Tajikistan!

Languages of Tajikistan: An upward view of the Hulbuk Citadel in Tajikistan

A tiny landlocked nation in Central Asia, Tajikistan is perhaps best known for its impressive mountains and lakes. But the languages of Tajikistan are arguably just as impressive, coming from all over the world.

And this makes sense, seeing as how Tajikistan is as the crossroad of the near-east, far-east and south-east Asia, and thus the crossroad of literally of dozens of language families…

Official Languages of Tajikistan

Tajik

Russian

Indigenous Languages of Tajikistan

Rushani

Ishkashimi

Khowar

Bukhori

Aimaqi

Uighur

Parya

Yazgulyan

Parmir

Shughni

Khufi

Pashto

Kyrgyz

Bartangi

Yaghnobi

Wakhi

Minority Languages of Tajikistan

Uzbek

Belarusian

Arabic

Chinese

Turkmen

Crimean Tatar

Tatar

Ukrainian

Dungan

Persian

Foreign Languages of Tajikistan

English

French

German

Turkish