Sentence examples for Tajiki from inspiring English sources
proper noun
The dialect of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia, especially in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
The Mountain Tajik are Ismāʿīlī Shīʿite Muslims who speak several eastern Iranian languages (the most common are Wakhi and Shugni), and almost all also speak the Tajiki language of the lowland-dwelling Tajiks of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, who are largely Sunni Muslims.
A higher court quashed the ruling in early 2014, but in November that year a third court reimposed the death penalty after it ruled Tajiki had attained "mental maturity" at the time of crime.
In a case that highlights Iran's continuing use of capital punishment against juvenile offenders, Alireza Tajiki, who was found guilty of raping and fatally stabbing a friend, is scheduled to be hanged on Sunday at Adel Abad prison in the southern city of Shiraz.
Tajiki was held incommunicado in solitary confinement for 15 days after his arrest and was allegedly subjected to torture including beatings, floggings and suspension by the arms and feet, Amnesty said.
The other four – Hindi, Farsi, Dari and Tajiki – enable him to work with informants or witnesses from India, Iran and Afghanistan.
New somoni bank notes are printed in Tajiki, a Persian dialect, on one side and English on the other.
James Lynch, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at Amnesty International, called on Iran to immediately halt Tajiki's execution.
Concerns have been raised over Tajiki's trial, including the reliance on confessions that activists say were obtained under duress.
