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Sarikoli (Tujik ziv)
Native to: People's Republic of China
Native speakers: 16,000 (2000)
Language family: Indo-European (Indo-Iranian)

is a member of the Pamir subgroup of the Southeastern Iranian languages spoken by Tajiks in China. It is officially referred to in China as the "Tajik language", although it is different from the related Iranian language spoken in Tajikistan, which is considered a dialect of Persian.

Sarikoli is officially referred to as "Tajik" (Chinese: 塔吉克语, Tǎjíkèyǔ) in China. However, it is not closely related to Tajik (a form of Persian) as spoken in Tajikistan, as Sarikoli is an Eastern Iranian language, closely related to other Pamir languages largely spoken in the Badakshan regions of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, rather than the Western Iranian Farsi-Dari-Tajik polycentric language. It is also referred to as Tashkorghani, after the ancient capital of the Sarikoli kingdom (now Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang, China); however, this usage is not widespread among scholars.

The earliest written accounts in English, from the 1870s, generally use the name "Sarikoli". Modern Chinese researchers would often mention both Sarikoli and Tajik names in their papers.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarikoli_language
https://youtu.be/00ofCNqnIZQ
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sari1246
https://omniglot.com/writing/sarikoli.htm

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