President Emomali Rahmon is meeting with representatives of Tajik intelligentsia today on the occasion of the State Language Day, which is marked in Tajikistan on October 5.
The meeting is being held at the Kokhi Borbad State Complex in Dushanbe. Representatives of creative intelligentsia, poets and writers have been invited to this meeting.
The State Language Day had been celebrated annually on July 22, the anniversary of the designation of Tajik as the state language in 1989, until 2010, when on July 21 President Rahmon amended the date to October 5.
A new law on official languages that went into effect in Tajikistan in October 2009 removed Russian as the “language for interethnic communication.”
It is to be noted that the new date (October 5) of celebration of the State Language Day coincides with birthday of President Emomali Rahmon.
