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Ethnic Tajik life through the lens of a soldier (Part III)

Updated: 2014-12-26 07:49 By Cui Jia (chinadaily.com.cn)
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Ethnic Tajik life through the lens of a soldier (Part III)

A Tajik man looks off to the distance in front of snowy mountains. The Tajiks are the only Caucasian people in China, physically resembling Europeans. The Tajik men call themselves "sons of the sun". [Photo by Wang Lie/chinadaily.com.cn]


Tajik people usually speak in the Sarikoli dialect which has no written language.

They can also speak Uygur and mandarin.