Re: Tijikibooboo
| From: | Alfred Wallace <alfredhw@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 30, 2001, 15:34 |
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On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 07:41:18 Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Adam Walker wrote:
>>What on earth was I thinking!?!? Of course Tajik is IE, related to Persian
>>and Pashto. Duh! *brrrrraaap!* (Major brain burp!)
>
>I've heard that Tajik basically is Farsi written in the Cyrillic script. Is
>that true? If it is, it clearly belongs among the Essentialist explanations.
It's close--the native Persian speaker in my class had little trouble understanding
Tajiki (he thought it sounded "medieval" or "uneducated" when he heard it
spoken). There are some grammatical influences from Uzbek, though. For a better
overview than I can give, I recommend the two books on the language I have:
Tajiki Texbook and Reader, by Michael Hillmann (my professor) (Dunwoody Press, 2000)
A Short Sketch of Tajik Grammar, by V. S. Rastorgueva (International Journal of
American Linguistics, vol. 29 no. 4)
In other words; that's a fine "essentialist" definition of Tajiki!
Alfred
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