Tajiks

Tajiks (Persian: تاجيک‎, Tājīk; Tajik: Тоҷик) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Tajiks are the largest ethnicity in Tajikistan, and the second largest in Afghanistan which constitutes over half of the global Tajik population. They speak varieties of Persian, a Western Iranian language. In Tajikistan, since the 1939 Soviet census, its small Pamiri and Yaghnobi ethnic groups are included as Tajiks. In China, the term is used to refer to its Pamiri ethnic groups, the Tajiks of Xinjiang, who speak the Eastern Iranian Pamiri languages. In Afghanistan, the Pamiris are counted as a separate …

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MRG: Minority Rights Group International · 25 September 2024 English

TAJIKISTAN 3 Language In line with the Constitution of Tajikistan, Tajik is the among 29 per cent of Tajiks, 10 per cent of Uzbeks, 11.4 state language and Russian is recognized as the language of per cent

infrastructure (Juma 2019; Bukhari-Zade 2015). Tajiks who make up 86.1 per cent of the population. The as well as in Pamiri minority is categorized as Tajiks, a designation the the capital city of Dushanbe the Uzbek minority while reinforcing the size of Tajiks; moreover, the census There is no procedure for recognition. First is the inclusion recorded as Tajiks, despite their unwillingness to be or exclusion communities, e.g., Bulgarians. forcefully recognized as Tajiks. Nevertheless, Yaghnobis are absent from the census


AAN_AF: Afghanistan Analysts Network · 20 September 2024 English

therefore, been marked by the need to balance the sway of the two main local constituencies, Uzbeks and Tajiks (both about the same size), with their respective ethnic elites entrenched from at least the Republic

non-Pashtun groups (Uzbeks and Tajiks in Takhar and parts of Badakhshan, Tajiks in most of Badakhshan, Panjshir population is largely split between Uzbeks and Tajiks. Tajiks make up a more homogenous population in the communities opposed the hegemony of the Jamiati Tajiks from the central areas of the province;6 they might of the two main local constituencies, Uzbeks and Tajiks (both about the same size), with their respective appointments, offering local prominence to Uzbeks and Tajiks ‘by turns’ has so far not resulted in major defections


Wilson Center Canada · 18 September 2024 English

The conditions the possibility that the KGB arranged the pogroms of the deportation were deplorable: people were to show the Uzbek authorities that the locals could moved by trucks and …

discrimination makes them religious minorities like Tajiks, but at least they have especially vulnerable.


Amnesty International · 11 September 2024 English

the Shia Ismaili branch of Islam. Denied official recognition as a minority and regarded as ethnic Tajiks by the central authorities, Pamiris face systemic discrimination, suppression of cultural and religious

recognition as a minority and regarded as ethnic Tajiks by the central authorities, Pamiris face systemic


Amnesty International · 10 September 2024 Tajik

officially denies the existence of a Pamiri minority. However, despite regarding Pamiris as ethnic Tajiks, the central Tajikistani authorities have consistently subjected them to discrimination and promoted


Amnesty International · 10 September 2024 English

officially denies the existence of a Pamiri minority. However, despite regarding Pamiris as ethnic Tajiks, the central Tajikistani authorities have consistently subjected them to discrimination and promoted

minority. However, despite regarding Pamiris as ethnic Tajiks, the central Tajikistani authorities have consistently reported that interrogating officers were ethnic Tajiks from other regions of the country. It was common percent of the population were counted as ethnic Tajiks including Pamiris.3 GBAO is located in the remote identify as such in the census and are counted as Tajiks. In the 2020 census, the results of which were percent of the population were counted as ethnic Tajiks, according to a government official: see Committee


Amnesty International · 10 September 2024 Russian

officially denies the existence of a Pamiri minority. However, despite regarding Pamiris as ethnic Tajiks, the central Tajikistani authorities have consistently subjected them to discrimination and promoted


World Bank Group · 3 September 2024 English

causes of Tajikistan’s lagging health outcomes. All Tajiks are entitled to subsidized health services from


UN: The United Nations · 26 August 2024 English

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Afghan nationals, 136 Georgians, 38 Syrians, 33 Tajiks, 30 Azerbaijanis, 23 Ethiopians and smaller numbers


CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · 1 August 2024 English

The pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and an anti-migrant crackdown mean Russia is an increasingly unattractive destination for Central Asian laborers. Some are looking instead to other Asian and European …

Vladimir Putin, urging him to �ght terrorism, not Tajiks. �ere has been no change in approach, however,


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