Tor Tajiks

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Tor Tajiks
An Uyghur of Tor village, near Koghushluk, Kashgar prefecture.jpg
A Tor Tajik man in traditional attire
Languages
Tor Tajik, Uyghur, Mandarin Chinese
Related ethnic groups
Sarikolis, Wakhis, and other Iranic peoples
Map of Kashgar Prefecture with Tor village highlighted Location of Tashkurgan, Koghushluk, Tor, Teeng within the Kashgar prefecture.png
Map of Kashgar Prefecture with Tor village highlighted

Tor Tajiks are Tajiks indigenous to the village of Tor in Xinjiang, China. The Chinese government officially regards them as members of the "Tajik nationality", along with the non-Tajik, Sarikoli- or Wakhi-speaking Pamiris of Tashkurgan County. [1] Although they are Iranic Tajiks, they speak a Turkic language unique to their ethnicity. [1]

Language and culture

The Tor Tajiks follow Tajik customs but speak a Turkic language intermediate between Uyghur and Uzbek. [1] [2] Although intermarriages are common between Sarikolis and Wakhis, Tor Tajiks generally do not intermarry with the other two subgroups of the Tajik nationality. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Arlund, Pamela S. (2006). An Acoustic, Historical, And Developmental Analysis Of Sarikol Tajik Diphthongs (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Arlington.
  2. ↑ Tsung, L. (11 December 2015). Minority Languages, Education and Communities in China. Springer. p. 21. ISBN   978-0-230-23440-6.
  3. ↑ Kim, D. (2017). Topics in the syntax of Sarikoli (PhD thesis). Leiden University.
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