Tajik Language: Facts for Translators

Tajik (tg, tgk) belongs to the Persian language in Tajikistan. Wikidata records about 14M speakers. It is written in Cyrillic script and Hebrew alphabet. It is an official language in 1 country, including Tajikistan.

14M

Speakers

$0.12–0.28

Indicative rate / word

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Where Tajik is official

Tajikistan

Rates for Tajik translation

Tajik falls in our lesser-diffused languages band: roughly $0.12–$0.28 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.

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From Wikipedia

Tajik, Tajik Persian, Tajiki Persian, also called Tajiki, as well as sometimes referred to as Eastern Persian, is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by ethnic Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari in Afghanistan, with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of Persian. Several scholars consider Tajik to be a dialectal variety of Persian rather than a language in its own right. The question of whether Tajik and Persian should be considered two dialects of a single language or two discrete languages has political aspects to it.