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Tajiki - забо́ни тоҷикӣ́ - is the variant of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and parts of Uzbekistan, especially the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, as well as in Afghanistan and other countries in Central Asia. It has diverged from the Persian of Iran and Afghanistan in terms of vocabulary, borrowing a lot from Russian and its Turkic neighbours such as Kyrgyz and Uzbek, but remains mutually intelligible with them. Historically, it was written with a version of the Perso-Arabic script but nowadays uses Cyrillic, despite calls to change to Arabic or Latin.