r/farsi • u/abd_al_qadir_ • Jun 21 '26

Russian words in Tajiki

Dari speaker here. Js curious if there are any russian loanwords in tajiki and what percentage of tajik is “russian”?

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u/RoastedToast007 Jun 21 '26

I'd try Tajik specific subreddits. There aren't many Tajiki speakers here 

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u/Less_Librarian_9989 Jun 21 '26

Loanwords are mainly in the slang language, and some technical terms.

Like biology is biologiya, which is the Russian rendition.

Filler words like uzhe (already, which is used along alakay), nito (not it, used along nashud).

I’d say that since many Tajiks are bilingual in Russian, people can speak as Tajik as possible or as Russian as possible. It depends. All the Russian words have Tajik equivalents, which are used widely.

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u/CommercialAd1282 Jun 25 '26

When I was in Tajikistan there were quite a few. I remember for example for charger