Editing Tajiks (section)

=== Cultural revival ===
[[File:Праздник "Мехргон" в парке г. Душанбе, 01.jpg|thumb|Tajiks celebrating [[Mehregan]] in Dushanbe park.|250x250px]]
The collapse of the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[War in Afghanistan (1978–present)|Civil War in Afghanistan]] both gave rise to a resurgence in Tajik nationalism across the region, including a trial to revert to the [[Persian alphabet|Perso-Arabic]] script in Tajikistan.<ref name="EoIranic Tajik Persian">{{cite web|last1=Perry|first1=John|title=TAJIK ii. TAJIK PERSIAN|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/tajik-ii-tajiki-persian|website=TAJIK II. TAJIK PERSIAN|publisher=Encyclopaedia Iranica|access-date=20 July 2009|archive-date=1 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201053157/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/tajik-ii-tajiki-persian|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Iranica" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rubin |first1=Barnett |last2=Snyder |first2=Jack |title=Post-Soviet Political Order |date=1 November 2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-69758-8 |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnWFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 |language=en}}</ref> Furthermore, Tajikistan in particular has been a focal point for this movement, and the government there has made a conscious effort to revive the legacy of the [[Samanid]] empire, the first Tajik-dominated state in the region after the [[Arab]] advance. For instance, the [[President of Tajikistan]], [[Emomalii Rahmon]], dropped the Russian suffix "-ov" from his surname and directed others to adopt Tajik names when registering births.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372123|title=Tajikistan restates its strategic partnership with Russia, while sending mixed signals|access-date=19 December 2007|last=McDermott|first=Roger|date=25 April 2007|publisher=The Jamestown Foundation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014232737/http://jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2372123 <!-- Bot retrieved archive -->|archive-date=14 October 2007}}</ref> According to a government announcement in October 2009, approximately 4,000 Tajik nationals have dropped "ov" and "ev" from their surnames since the start of the year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asiaplus.tj/en/news/198/58219.html|title=Some 4,000 Tajiks opt to use the traditional version of their names this year|publisher=Asiaplus.tj|date=17 October 1962|access-date=11 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923175342/http://www.asiaplus.tj/en/news/198/58219.html|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In September 2009, the [[Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan]] proposed a draft law to have the nation's language referred to as "Tajiki-Farsi" rather than "Tajik." The proposal drew criticism from Russian media since the bill sought to remove the [[Russian language]] as Tajikistan's inter-ethnic ''[[lingua franca]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=9 September 2009|title=Tajik Islamic Party Seeks Tajiki-Farsi Designation|work=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/Tajikistans_Islamic_Party_Wants_Language_Called_Tajiki_Farsi/1818766.html|access-date=25 June 2021|archive-date=25 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625060657/https://www.rferl.org/a/Tajikistans_Islamic_Party_Wants_Language_Called_Tajiki_Farsi/1818766.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1989, the original name of the language (Farsi) had been added to its official name in brackets, though Rahmon's government renamed the language to simply "Tajiki" in 1994.<ref name=":0" /> On 6 October 2009, Tajikistan adopted the law that removes Russian as the ''lingua franca'' and mandated Tajik as the language to be used in official documents and education, with an exception for members Tajikistan's ethnic minority groups, who would be permitted to receive an education in the language of their choosing.<ref>{{Cite news|date=7 October 2009|title=Tajikistan Drops Russian As Official Language|work=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/Tajikistan_Drops_Russian_As_Official_Language/1846118.html|access-date=25 June 2021|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055202/http://www.rferl.org/content/Tajikistan_Drops_Russian_As_Official_Language/1846118.html|url-status=live}}</ref>