The Abuabdullo Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature ( tg, Институти забон ва адабиёт ба номи А. Рӯдакии; russian: Институт языка и литературы имени А. Рудаки; fa, انستیتوت زبان و ادبیات رودکی) is the regulatory body for the

Tajik Tajik, Tadjik, Tadzhik or Tajikistani may refer to: * Someone or something related to Tajikistan * Tajiks, an ethnic group in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan * Tajik language, the official language of Tajikistan * Tajik (surname) * Tajik cu ...

variety of

Persian language Persian (), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of th ...

, headquartered in

Dushanbe Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...

Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

. It is one of the oldest research institutes in the

Tajik Academy of Sciences Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Академияи илмҳои Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, italic=yes, ''Akademiyai ilmhoi Jumhuriyi Tojikiston''; russian: Академия наук Республики Тадж ...

; it acts as the official authority on the language and contributes to linguistic research on the Tajik language and other

languages of Tajikistan Main languages The two official languages of Tajikistan are Russian as the interethnic language and Tajik as the state language, as understood in Article 2 of the Constitution: "The state language of Tajikistan shall be Tajik. Russian shall be ...

. The Institute of Language and Literature in the Tajik Republic was founded during the

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

era on 17 March 1932. In 1958, on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of the founder of Persian-Tajik literature Abuabdullo Rudaki, the institute was named in his honour.

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