Tajiks

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Tajiks are an Iranian ethnic group of Central Asia, primarily inhabiting Tajikistan and parts of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, known for their Persian cultural and linguistic heritage.

All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
Tajiks canonical 57
Tajik 19
Tajik people 7

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian peoples
ethnic group
ancestralOrigin Bactrians
Eastern Iranian languages
surface form: Eastern Iranian peoples

Sogdians
other Iranian-speaking populations of Central Asia
capitalCityAssociated Dushanbe
closelyRelatedLanguage Dari
Persian
culturalSphere Persianate world
ethnogenesisRegion Central Asia
historicalLanguage Persian language
surface form: Classical Persian
historicalWritingSystem Perso-Arabic script
language Tajik language
surface form: Tajik
languageBranch Iranian languages
languageFamily Indo-Iranian languages
majorIslamicSchool Hanafi school
surface form: Hanafi
minorityReligion Ismaili Shia
surface form: Ismaili Shia Islam
musicTradition Shashmaqam
nationalityMajorityIn Tajikistan
primaryCountry Tajikistan
relatedEthnicGroup Tajiks self-linksurface differs
surface form: Afghan Tajiks

Hazaras
Iranian peoples
Pamiris
Persians
religion Shia Islam
Sunni Islam
selfDesignation Tajikistan
surface form: Tojik
significantPopulationIn Afghanistan
China
Pakistan
Russia
Uzbekistan
standardLanguageForm Tajik language
surface form: Tajik Persian
traditionalCulture Nowruz celebrations
Persian literature
Persian poetry
traditionalOccupation agriculture
pastoralism
traditionalRegion Bactria
Badakhshan
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
surface form: Bukhara

Samarkand
Sogdia
surface form: Transoxiana
traditionalReligion Sunni Islam
UNESCOIntangibleHeritage Nowruz celebrations
surface form: Nowruz

Shashmaqam
writingSystem Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (91)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aimak relatedEthnicGroup Tajiks
Pamiris relatedTo Tajiks
Afghanistan (regionally, via Baluchistan) ethnicGroup Tajiks
subject surface form: Afghanistan
United Front ethnicBase Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik
Jamiat-e Islami ethnicBase Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik
Ismail Khan ethnicGroup Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik
Yunus Qanuni ethnicGroup Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik people
Yasin Zia ethnicGroup Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik (Afghanistan)
Persianate world hasKeyLanguage Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik
Sarikoli spokenBy Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajiks of China
Shughni influencedBy Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik
Central Asian American relatedGroup Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik American
Nimruz Province ethnicGroup Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik
Daikundi Province ethnicGroup Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik
Farah Province ethnicGroup Tajiks
Kokand hasMinority Tajiks
Asadabad ethnicGroup Tajiks
Herat Province ethnicGroup Tajiks
Logar Province ethnicGroup Tajiks
Mazar-i-Sharif ethnicGroup Tajiks
Golestan Province hasEthnicGroup Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik
Iraq-i Ajam hasEthnicGroup Tajiks
Kart dynasty ethnicCharacter Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik
Tashkurgan ethnicMajority Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik people
Tashkurgan ethnicGroupPresent Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik people
Qahhor Mahkamov ethnicGroup Tajiks
this entity surface form: Tajik people