| Dumzoy | |
|---|---|
  Dumzoy Location in Tajikistan | |
| Coordinates: 39°11′45.59″N69°4′40.53″E / 39.1959972°N 69.0779250°E Coordinates: 39°11′45.59″N69°4′40.53″E / 39.1959972°N 69.0779250°E | |
| Country |  |
| Province | Sughd |
| Elevation | 2,476 m (8,123 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 1 [1] |
Dumzoy (Tajik Думзой, Yaghnobi Дүмзой) is a village in western Tajikistan. It is located in Sughd province north east of Anzob.
Tajik or Tajiki, also called Tajiki Persian, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It is closely related to Dari Persian. Since the beginning of the twentieth century and collapse of the Soviet Union, Tajik has been considered by a number of writers and researchers to be a variety of Persian. The popularity of this conception of Tajik as a variety of Persian was such that, during the period in which Tajik intellectuals were trying to establish Tajik as a language separate from Persian, Sadriddin Ayni, who was a prominent intellectual and educator, had to make a statement that Tajik was not a bastardized dialect of Persian. The issue of whether Tajik and Persian are to be considered two dialects of a single language or two discrete languages has political sides to it.
The Yaghnobi language is a living Eastern Iranian language. Yaghnobi is spoken in the upper valley of the Yaghnob River in the Zarafshan area of Tajikistan by the Yaghnobi people. It is considered to be a direct descendant of Sogdian and has often been called Neo-Sogdian in academic literature.
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement.
