Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- 1 How Tajik was made into a national language -- 2 Standard Tajik phonology -- 3 Modality and mood in Tajik -- 4 Aspect in Tajik -- 5 Tajik Sign Language in context -- 6 Tajik dialects of Badakhshan and Shughnani: A comparative perspective -- 7 Linguistic landscape of Bukhara: The ambiguous future of Tajik -- 8 Terminology in Tajik -- Index