Tajiks

This work aims to introduce the history and culture of Tajik people. In order to do this, I will first attempt to give a thorough history and definition of the word Tajik based on Chinese, Greek, Russian, Turkish, and Persian resources. This paper will then try to study the history of the Tajik people and the role that such varied peoples as Soghds, Bakhtaris,  Forghanians, and Kharazmians played in the formation and evolution  of Tajiks as one unified people.
In another part of the article, it will be tried to look at and analyze the reasons for the migrations of the Tajik people as well as their distribution throughout history. Religion, language, livelihood, housing and the kind of architecture they use are amongst the main issues which will be dealt with in the current work. The final part will investigate the oral literature of Tajik people;  and such varied genres as legend, du-bayti (two lines of a poem lumped into one), narrative songs, mythology, etc. will be dealt with.