Portal:Language/Language topic/April 2009

The Tajik language has been written in three writing systems over the course of its history: a version of the Arabic script, a version of the Latin alphabet, and a version of the Cyrillic alphabet. Any version used specifically for Tajik may be referred to as the Tajik alphabet, which is written in Tajik as follows: Perso-Arabic: ‫اﻟﻔﺒﺎﯼ تاجيكی‬, Cyrillic: алифбои тоҷикӣ, Latin: alifʙoi toçikī, Persian: الفبای تاجیکی.

The use of a specific alphabet generally corresponds with stages in history, with Arabic being used first, followed by Latin for a short period and then Cyrillic, which remains the most widely used alphabet in Tajikistan. A related language, Judæo-Tajiki, spoken by the Bukharan Jews, uses the Hebrew alphabet.

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