variants:
or Tadzhik
Definition of Tajik
1
: a member of a Persian-speaking ethnic group living in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and adjacent areas of central Asia
2
: the form of Persian spoken by the Tajiks
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The first known use of Tajik was in 1815
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