Tajik is spoken by 4,380,000 people: 3,345,000 in Tajikistan, 934,000 in Uzbekistan, 38,000 in Russia, 34,000 in Kyrgyzstan, 63,000 elsewhere.
Publishing History
Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1981.
The New Testament was first published in 1983.
The complete Bible was first published in 1992.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the Bachaev version. This page is taken from a Bible first published in 1992 by IBT/UBS Partnership, Stockholm.