Editing Tajiks (section)

=== Tajikistan ===
{{Main|Demographics of Tajikistan}}

Tajiks make up around 84.3% of the population of Tajikistan.<ref name="CIA-tj">{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/tajikistan/|title=Tajikistan|access-date=26 May 2010|date=5 May 2010|work=[[The World Factbook]]|publisher=[[Central Intelligence Agency]]|archive-date=20 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820040637/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/tajikistan/|url-status=live}}</ref> This number includes speakers of the [[Pamiri languages]], including [[Wakhi language|Wakhi]] and [[Shughni language|Shughni]], and the [[Yaghnobi people]] who in the past were considered by the government of the Soviet Union nationalities separate from the Tajiks. In the 1926 and 1937 Soviet censuses, the Yaghnobis and Pamiri language speakers were counted as separate nationalities. After 1937, these groups were required to register as Tajiks.<ref name=suny>{{cite book|last=Suny|first=Ronald Grigor|editor-first=Brenda|editor-last=Shaffer|title=The Limits of Culture: Islam and Foreign Policy|publisher=MIT Press|year=2006|pages=[https://archive.org/details/limitsofculturei0000unse/page/100 100–110]|chapter=History and Foreign Policy: From Constructed Identities to "Ancient Hatreds" East of the Caspian|isbn=0-262-69321-6|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/limitsofculturei0000unse/page/100}}</ref>