Speaking at a news conference in Dushanbe, representatives of the Language and Terminology Committee under Government of Tajikistan noted on August 3 that names of 7,695 geographical features and 5,083 settlements in Tajikistan do not correspond to national traditions, and all of them will be renamed in the future.
As an example they cited the name of Murgab (Tajik: Murghob) district in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
They noted that the name “Murghob” is not correct; instead they offered to return its historical name “Marghob” or “Margheb”.
It is to be noted that Persian word margh-ab means 'prairie river'.
Murgab or Murghob is a district occupying the eastern two-thirds of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. The area of the district is 37,300 km2, covering 26 percent of Tajikistan's soil, but only 0.17% of its population. The district borders on Kyrgyzstan to the north, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south. Its administrative capital is the settlement Murgab or Murghob.
Meanwhile, the Language and Terminology Committee translated the name of the web browser FireFox into the Tajik language.
The Language and Terminology Committee head Olimjon Muhammadjonzoda told reporters that it is posted online under the title of “Rubohi Jilodor”.
According to him, specialists have worked on this project two years and “it has become publicly available with access to more than 1 million Tajik words.
Firefox is a free, open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation in 2004. The Firefox web browser can be used with Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems, as well as Android and iOS mobile devices. Firefox uses the Google search page as its homepage and default search engine.
