Tajik people - Tajik (English spelling)

Japanese: タジク族 - タジクぞく（英語表記）Tājīk

An Iranian ethnic group in Central Asia. In Russian, they are called Tadzhik. Currently, they have a population of about 3.8 million in the former Soviet Union, including Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan, and more than 5 million in Afghanistan, Iran, and other areas. Their history dates back to the Iranian tribes that migrated from the Eurasian steppes and settled in Central Asia from the end of the 2nd millennium BCE to the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE, and they established their own culture in the oases of Sogd, Khwarezm, and Bactria. The term Tajik was originally a medieval Persian word referring to a tribe of Arabs, but when the above regions were conquered by Arab Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries and the indigenous Iranian inhabitants converted to Islam, the Turks of Central Asia began to call them Tajiks, and eventually they also began to refer to themselves as Tajiks to the Turks.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中央アジアのイラン系民族。ロシア語ではTadzhik。現在は，旧ソ連邦のタジキスタン，ウズベキスタン共和国などに約380万，アフガニスタン，イランなどに500万以上の人口を有している。歴史は，前2千年紀末から前1千年紀初頭にかけてユーラシア草原から中央アジアに移動･定着したイラン系諸族にさかのぼり，彼らは，ソグド，ホラズム，バクトリアのオアシス地方に独自の文化を築きあげた。タジクという語は，本来アラブの一部族を指した中世ペルシア語であったが，7,8世紀に上記の地方がアラブ･ムスリムによって征服され，土着のイラン系住民がイスラムに改宗すると，中央アジアのトルコ人は彼らをタジクと呼ぶようになり，やがて彼らもトルコ人に対して自らをタジクと称するにいたった。

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