Is Tajik a dialect of Persian? Or a language in its own right? What differentiates it from varieties prevalent in Afghanistan and Iran? There is no easy answer to these questions because the very ...

DUSHANBE -- Tajikistan's opposition Islamic Renaissance Party is insisting that the country's state language be called Tajiki-Farsi, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Tajikistan's parliament is ...

Introduction to Persian language and culture. By the end of the semester, students will have an overview of Persian grammar and will able to read and converse in Persian at a basic level. Class ...