Tadjikistan

Interesting Facts About Tadjikistan

• Tajikistan is the only country in Central Asia with a majority of Iranic people and a minority of Turkic people
• The ethnic Russian population declined dramatically from 7.6% in 1989 to approximately 0.5% by 1998 following the Tajikistani Civil War
• Tajik is written in the Tajik Cyrillic alphabet and is the official state language
• Approximately 90% of Tajikistan's population speaks Russian at varying levels
• The Pamir languages are spoken in Kuhistani Badakshshan Autonomous Region and are the fourth most spoken languages by native speakers after Tajik, Russian, and Uzbek
• There are more Tajiks living in Afghanistan than in Tajikistan itself

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