Tajik

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Tajik may refer to:

• Tajik people, an ethnic group Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Pakistan and China
• Tajik Assata Anwar Bahoul, the birth name of Black nationalist activist Taj Anwar
• Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan
• The Sarikoli language, spoken by Tajiks in China and officially referred to as the Tajik language in China
• The Arabic-schooled, ethnically Persian administrative caste of the Turco-Persian society

note: To distinguish between the nationality and the ethnicity, some sources (such as CIA factbook) use the adjective Tajikistani for the citizens of Tajikistan.

Tajik is occasionally written as Tadzhik or Tadjik, a transcription of the Russian spelling.

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