Langenesis

Indo-European family

Tajik

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Tajik (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → … → Middle Persian → Persian → Tajik.

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Speakers
8M (8,000,000)
ISO 639-3
tgk
Glottocode
taji1245

Persian of Central Asia, written in Cyrillic since 1939; diverged from Iranian Persian under Uzbek/Russian influence and political separation.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Iranianc. 1,800 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  4. Old Persian550 BCE – 330 BCE
  5. Middle Persian300 BCE – 900 CE
  6. Persian900 CE – today
  7. Tajikc. 1500 CE – today

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Persian.

Sources