Tor Tajiks

Tor Tajiks

Tor Tajiks are ethnic Tajiks indigenous to the village of Tor in Xinjiang. The Chinese government officially regards them as members of the "Tajik nationality", along with the non-Tajik, Sarikoli- or Wakhi-speaking Pamiris of Tashkurgan County. Although they are Iranic Tajiks and follow Tajik customs, they speak a Turkic language intermediate between Uyghur and Uzbek. While intermarriages are common between Sarikolis and Wakhis, Tor Tajiks generally do not intermarry with the other two subgroups of the Tajik nationality.