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throwaway2037 on Dec 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (...

FYI: Large parts of Afghanistan and Tajikistan also speak Persian. I was surprised to learn this recently.

fsckboy on Dec 27, 2023 [–]

fwiw, it's not so much that Persian is spoken in Tajikistan, it's that the Tajiks are a Persian people (as opposed to, in that part of the world, Turkic, Mongolic, or Hindi (Hindi and Urdu are the same languages, and Hindi and Persian are in the same broad language family, Indo-Iranian)

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