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 A regulatory agency (regulatory body, regulator) or independent agency (independent regulatory agency) is a government authority that is responsible for exercising autonomous dominion over some area of human activity in a licensing and regulatin ...

for the Tajik variety of

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

, 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 (r ...

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 List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

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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