Tajik language and its influence on western Europeаn languages

Abstract

© 2020, Universidad del Zulia. All rights reserved. Based on reliable linguistic sources, this article studies lexical units of the Tajik language borrowed by Western European languages at different periods of development. Lexemes indicate that the Tajik language had close contacts with Western European languages at different stages of its development. One of the important sources of influence of the Tajik language should be considered the outstanding monument of world literature “Shahnameh” by Abulkasim Firdousi (Xth century). On this basis, the study of vocabulary and terminology of “Shahnameh” is relevant not only for Tajik linguistics but also for Indo-European ones, including Western European languages.