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Tajik
Indigenous Group	Tajik (Also known as: Tadjik, Tojik, Tadzik, Tadzhik, Tajek)
Location	Afghanistan, compact areas in the northeastern part of the country, especially provinces Kabul, Kapisa, Parwan, Panjsher, Baghlan, Takhar and Badakshan; compact areas in the western provinces of Herat and Ghor; and scattered settlements in other parts of the country.
Estimated Population	8,400,000 (2005, CIA World Factbook)
Environment	Plain, Highland, Mountains, Valleys
Lifestyle	Sedentary
Subsistence	Agriculture / Animal Husbandry / Trade / Paid Labor
Level of Assimilation	Fairly Traditional
Language Family	Dari Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian Alternate names: Persian, Farsi, Parsi, Eastern Persian, Eastern Farsi, Eastern Parsi, Tajik, Tojik, Tajiki, Tojiki, Galcha Dialects: There are many regional dialects such as Afghan Farsi, Herati, Kabuli, Khorasani, Panjsheri, Andarabi, Samangani, Badakhshi. Parsiwan is a somewhat more disparate dialect, spoken by a distinct ethnic group. Dari is one of two national languages of Afghanistan and a regional lingua franca for centuries. It is spoken, even as the first language, by many peoples other than ethnic Tajiks.
Website URLs	History of the Tajik Nation Afghan Network, Tajiks of Afghanistan Afghanistan Online, General Information about Afghanistan Cultural Orientation, Peoples of Afghanistan (US State Dept.) Afghanistan country study (US Government), Tajik Afghanistan ethnolinguistic map
NGOs	Afghanistan Information Management Service The UN Refugee Agency