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the status of Tajik speakers in Uzbekistan is a matter of debate that the model reports with attribution.","purpose":"Let an agent explain the Tajik language and its dialects, relay history, script and status from linguistic sources with attribution, describe communities in Uzbekistan, Russia and Kazakhstan neutrally, and distinguish Tajik from Iranian Persian, Dari and the Pamiri languages.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Persian variety","Cyrillic script","Central Asian vocabulary","Cross-border communities"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What Tajik is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition and classification.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is Tajik, and how does it relate to Iranian Persian, Dari and the Pamiri languages, as linguists describe?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about the language, a dialect, a community or policy?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"dialects","name":"Dialects","description":"Dialects.","findings":[{"id":"dialects-finding","name":"Dialects","description":"Dialects.","questions":[{"text":"What are the northern and southern dialects, Uzbekistani Tajik and Madaklashti?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which entry fits the specific dialect?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"learn","name":"Learn","description":"Grammar and script.","layers":[{"id":"grammar","name":"Grammar","description":"Grammar.","findings":[{"id":"grammar-finding","name":"Grammar","description":"Grammar.","questions":[{"text":"What are the main features of Tajik phonology, grammar and vocabulary compared with Iranian Persian?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"script","name":"Script","description":"Script.","findings":[{"id":"script-finding","name":"Script","description":"Script.","questions":[{"text":"How did Tajik move from Perso-Arabic to Latin and Cyrillic scripts, and what debates exist about script today?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"history","name":"History","description":"History.","layers":[{"id":"development","name":"Development","description":"Development.","findings":[{"id":"development-finding","name":"Development","description":"Development.","questions":[{"text":"How did Tajik develop from Classical Persian in Central Asia through the Soviet period?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits Persian literature?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"policy","name":"Policy","description":"Language policy.","findings":[{"id":"policy-finding","name":"Policy","description":"Policy.","questions":[{"text":"How have Soviet and post-Soviet policies shaped Tajik in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, with positions attributed?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation neutral?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Communities and culture.","layers":[{"id":"communities","name":"Communities","description":"Communities abroad.","findings":[{"id":"communities-finding","name":"Communities","description":"Communities.","questions":[{"text":"How is Tajik used in Uzbekistan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits Tajiks in Uzbekistan?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"literature","name":"Literature","description":"Literature.","findings":[{"id":"literature-finding","name":"Literature","description":"Literature.","questions":[{"text":"What are the major works of Tajik literature, and how does it share the Persian heritage?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits Tajik literature?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe Tajik, its dialects and its relationship to Persian from linguistic sources.","Help learners and translators work with Tajik in Cyrillic and other scripts."],"mustNot":["Present Tajik as either wholly separate from Persian or identical to it without noting the debate.","Frame the status of Tajik speakers in Uzbekistan in a partisan way.","Translate official or legal documents into or from Tajik without saying a human should check them.","Mock the language or its speakers."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing official translations in Tajik."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Language is tied to national identity and minority rights in the region.","Migrant Tajik speakers often face discrimination abroad."],"affectedParties":["Tajik speakers","Tajik communities in neighbouring countries","Migrants"]},"owners":{"steward":"The public: held in common by its speakers; the language authority of Tajikistan sets its standard.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q49478393","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Persian language in Tajikistan","type":"related","note":"in registry terms"},{"target":"Persian language","type":"related","note":"with Iranian Persian and Dari"},{"target":"Tajikistan","type":"related"},{"target":"Pamiri languages","type":"related","note":"distinct Eastern Iranian languages"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.tajik","Wikidata: Q9260 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9260)","ISO 639-1: tg Tajik","ISO 639-3: tgk Tajik","Glottolog: taji1245 Tajik"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["speakers: about 8-10 million - estimates","Cyrillic adopted: 1940 year","official status: Tajikistan note","Tajiks in Uzbekistan: about 1.5 million official, higher by other estimates note - contested"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["Persian of Tajikistan in Cyrillic","Northern and southern dialects, Uzbekistani Tajik, Tajik in Russia and Kazakhstan, Madaklashti","Iranian Persian uses Perso-Arabic script; Dari is the Afghan variety; Pamiri languages are distinct Eastern Iranian languages","Not a visible object; speech and text in Cyrillic."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["explain dialects and features","relay history and script","describe communities and status","distinguish related languages"]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Partisan framing of the Uzbekistan Tajik question","Treating Tajik as unrelated to Persian or as identical to it","Registry aliases mixing countries and dialects"]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Tajikistan state language law","Uzbekistan language and minority policies, contested","ISO 639 codes"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Not applicable; a language.","standard Tajik of Tajikistan","northern dialects","southern dialects","Uzbekistani Tajik of Samarkand and Bukhara","Tajik in Russia and Kazakhstan among migrants and minorities","outlying dialects such as Madaklashti"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q9260: Tajik","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9260","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Tajik language","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajik_language","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Should Uzbekistani Tajik and the dialect groups be separate primary entries?","How should linguistic sources be linked?","The registry entry has merged aliases naming countries and dialects; should they be split off?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q9260/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-q9260/spec.json"],"providers":["Claude"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-13T13:56:15Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"filled","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"filled","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"_gate":"Published through the thing publication gate 1.0 on 2026-10-06T19:52:03+00:00: completeness 1.00; sense: Wikidata description; 2 live sources; 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