Re: Tijikibooboo

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> 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.
I gather that that was, at one point, the case. But I dunno;
I only know one Tajiki speaker.

Alfred, are you reading this?

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