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Tajikistan: Language and Nation-Building

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Tajikistan, Citizen Media, Ethnicity & Race, Language

Blogger Adash Istad ponders [1] [tj] the importance of a common vernacular language in the process of nation-building in Tajikistan. The author writes: “We have a national spoken language [which all groups in the country should be able to speak]. Those who do not want to understand this simple truth will never become part of the nation”.