--- John Bizwas <bizwas at lycos.com> wrote: Yes, my mistake. A linguist (whom I cc'd my post to when I first sent it) informs me that Tajik is so close to Persian as to be considered a 'dialect'. I was thinking of another Turkic language of C. Asia, Kazakh. Considering that there are so many Tajik speakers in Uzbekistan, there must be a considerable amount of multi-lingual 'code-switching'.
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I would guess that Uzbeks and Tajiks use Russian to communicate with each other. Practically everybody in the CIS uses Russian as a lingua franca. They all speak it.
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