Language code: tg

Technical information about ISO 639 language code tg

The table below provides technical details for the Tajik language, designated by the tg code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

tg

Name

Official

Tajik

Native

Тоҷикӣ

Family
Indo-Iranian
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northern TajikCentral TajikSouthern Tajik
Related languages
Persian (Farsi)Dari PersianHazaragiTat Persian
Key facts
Uses a modified Cyrillic script adopted in 1940Earlier texts were written in the Perso-Arabic script, and a Latin alphabet was briefly promoted in the 1920s-30sVocabulary shows heavy influence from Russian and Turkic languagesStress commonly falls on the last syllable of a wordScript reform—return to Perso-Arabic or adoption of Latin—remains an active cultural debate.
Sample phrase

Салом, шумо чӣ хелед?

Character encodings

KOI8-T, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Tajik belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Indo-Iranian subgroup. It is one of the official languages in Tajikistan and is also used in some parts of Uzbekistan and Russia. It is written using the Cyrillic script (Tajik alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 10 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

216K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Tajik speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

tg-TJ Tajik (Tajikistan)

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