I'm going to be a teacher there. Can't wait to meet those awesome ppl. Thanks for the video man!
@HLiao-ei9bh8 жыл бұрын
Awesome video! Really hope there will be more videos about the Tajik Chinese!
@nicolasgoldring71286 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful city. Tashkurgan had come to be one of my favorite cities in China for its unique culture, home to the Mountain Tajiks (塔吉克族), and beautiful scenery.
@pbilk6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for this video! I just did a project on these Tajik people and their culture and language, Sarikoli.
@hanikxakarxa18255 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video man,btw I’m from Thashkorgan. I appreciate your effort.
@shirshah88642 жыл бұрын
I want to see this small city...
@Ayesha72AbouTaleb2 жыл бұрын
I've been to Thashkorgan 6 times in the late 1988 and 1996 when it was a small town
@shoaibhalimi4123 Жыл бұрын
Are you Tajik, Bro
@emaduddinsaighani1332 жыл бұрын
Long live Tajik I am Tajik from Afghanistan
@شيفاجيراتكوفيرناندوالجنابيالقر6 ай бұрын
انا طاشغورغاني نحن اذا قلنا لاحد اننا طاشغورغانيين اننا اسماعيلية سوف يكون مصيرنا كمصير الكلاشا او ما شابه الطاجيك مثلهم مثل طالبان لا فرق بين طالبان واحمد مسعود ان تكون طاشغورغاني اسماعيلي ليس عيب اتمنى ان يفعل كل الطاجيك الاسماعيلية مثلي ينسون لغتهم لغته السنه الطالبانيين طالبان = احمد مسعود = د........ = الاحزب الاسلامي = باكستان
@zhouzm028 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this video. I feel shame for not knowing about this people living in my own country. I eager to learn more about them.
@peekaboopeekaboo11656 жыл бұрын
How come? Were you not curious about your ethnic minorities? Did you not see, hear, watch, read and listened to stories and reports about ethnic minorities? These are widely available in state media.
Thank you for sharing. I live in a big city, but seeing the simple but relaxing lifestyle of the Tajiks, and the beautiful scenery, I am thinking that, perhaps, the city folks are missing something....
@mohammadmahdi54762 жыл бұрын
persian tajiks are great ppl living in tajikistan anfhanistan and iran ,very peaceful and lovely people
@eternalpeace31253 жыл бұрын
Girl is really well spoken
@HughJason2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Thank you. Do you think that this may be the "stone tower" of Marco Polo's travels ?
@josemariamolina126 жыл бұрын
Hello. I am here in Tashkorgan right now. Are you here too?
@lawcch7 жыл бұрын
do you have any contact to chat with you all about Tashkurgan city? I plan to visit this city and meet you all if possible.
@JMsoo7 жыл бұрын
so thy speak a sort of Tajik language and Mandarin? very interesting any recommendation or where to go and hikes around? nice video
@nicolasgoldring71285 жыл бұрын
Actually, the language they're speaking is different from the languages that the Tajiks in Tajikistan speak. In China, it's called "Sarikholi." Even the people, themselves, are different from the Tajiks in Tajikistan. They're an extension of Pamiri people who became both the Sarikolis and the Wakhis. However, the Tajiks in Tajikistan and China have one thing in common: They're both Iranian peoples. 🇹🇯🇨🇳
@thesmokeycloud5 жыл бұрын
They speak a descendant of an ancient eastern iranian language that used to cover much of central asia before the muslim/arab conquests. The iranian language they speak descends from ancient eastern iranian which diverged from western iranian (now modern persian/farsi) in 2000BC. The 'Tajik' people you see in the video themselves are ethnically and linguistically different to the majority tajik population of tajikistan (which are turkic and speak turkic languages) the people you see here are the minority (iranian descended) pamir people of eastern rural mountainous tajikstan and western xinjiang in china that speak their own version of the isolated eastern iranian languages known as 'Sarikholi' - numbers around 20,000 people. Mandarin is used as a lingua franca in the region owing to it being a part of China and used as communication in wider Chinese society.
@georgeyu6984 жыл бұрын
@@thesmokeycloud I never knew these before. Thank you so much for all the info. I think now I know more about the Tajik people in China, :-)
@mehransarfehnia25674 жыл бұрын
@@nicolasgoldring7128 thank you very much for your informative comment. I just today heard that these people are ancient Iranian people from an Iranian professor Dr. Zartosht Sotoodeh and you confirmed his talk.
@chefhassanmuraad86602 жыл бұрын
Nice 🌹💗🌹
@michaelhan89167 жыл бұрын
More production plz!
@craigusher11063 жыл бұрын
This is very interesting thank you, I noticed that the younger people are speaking Chinese do they also speak to Tajik?
@vohidsubonov87502 жыл бұрын
They are Pamiran
@kennethverana58856 жыл бұрын
very informative! i guess that tajiks and china have somehow share similar culture and tradition
@ahmadkabul32753 жыл бұрын
Long live Tajik
@alexminigun24384 жыл бұрын
Tashghorgan is actually a city in Afghanistan its between mazari Sharif and samangan amazing for me there is another tashghorgan in China
@colingallagher48482 жыл бұрын
Apparently this area now has an airport, but no idea how often it is served by airlines (Tashkurgan Kunjerab Airport). Probably won't be long until the area is overtaken by "civilization."
@ABCDEFGHdumbo2 жыл бұрын
Has it already been completed? I only heard that 2022 was the target. It's definitely a bit of a shame. Luckily, it seems that the region that the airport serves--Tajikistan, the Afghanistan corridor and northern Pakistan--is not that heavily trafficked. And mostly wilderness preserve. We'll see what the future holds.
@colingallagher48482 жыл бұрын
@@ABCDEFGHdumbo yes, there is the Tashkurgan Kunjerab Airport now as mentioned (the landing strips are there but the airport won't be complete until June 2022 supposedly). The process of the Chinese road building project is a much larger endeavor and may never be finished but the airport is basically (almost) there. I only hope that one of the world's last natural wonders is not destroyed because of all this.
@ABCDEFGHdumbo2 жыл бұрын
@@colingallagher4848 Good luck to China and trying to civilise the landscape of Xinjiang, as well as its attempts to "do so" to its people.
@colingallagher48482 жыл бұрын
@@ABCDEFGHdumbo I think it would have been better if the Chinese had never built roads / airports there. But there is an inevitability about it, they are going to build it. I don't think it is a good idea though and I don't support imposing communism on people (not to mention the genocidal tactics they use on Uyghurs). In the end the Chinese will build the airport but the larger "Belt & Road" project that is supposed to go all the way from China through Afghanistan and beyond, I suspect this will eventually meet stiff resistance; Afghanistan has never been taken over by a foreign aggressor. As you know, Tashkurgan (town) is close to the borders of Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The road the Chinese wish to run from China to Afghanistan (with part through Tashkurgan) as part of the Belt and Road project will get hopelessly bogged down as it should.
@Claire-lv9lc2 жыл бұрын
@@colingallagher4848 So you want there never to be any transportation built to connect the Tajik people to the broader world? Do you want them to stay poor and forever innocent from other opportunities except being a herdsman? You only wish it to be you or a few rich adventurers to tour there, to greet them like you are some superior modern foreigner who just discovered an ancient pearl that is so isolated from other parts of the world? Have you ever thought it is unfair to the locals to keep being isolated just for you to fulfill your "noble love of nature and culture"? Do you really believe that the Tajiks could pass down their beautiful culture by simply staying isolated, not having schools to go to, not having modern medical services, and not having chances to trade with the outside world? If so, do you consider your idea a form of genocide? I get that you want to preserve an ancient culture, but that is exactly what China is doing. Bringing more opportunities to the people there, improving the education rate, relocating them to the well-heated and free-of-charge apartments in the town while keeping their old homes in the mountain, and building roads to attract tourists to promote their culture. Over the last decades, the local officials have tried hard to bring the isolated Tajiks from the mountain out to the town to receive free education with room& board. Do you know that when transportation is limited, the Tajik people can only go to Uygur schools even though they want to learn Mandarin and even though the Uygur language has nothing similar to their language? Btw, Mandarin literally means "common language" in China. Please don't confuse "modernization" with "genocide," and you don't have to stay poor to preserve nature! All Chinese people live in a considerably modernized society, but they didn't forget their cultural heritage from thousands of years ago! Different cultures intermingle throughout the history of human civilization. You can't force one group of people to stick with only one ancient culture and stay isolated! Has any cultural heritage in Xinjiang been intentionally destroyed by the new China? On the contrary, do you need me to tell you who stole the beautiful ancient cave paintings and sold them all over the world? So, enough of this sinophobia! The Uyghur genocide is misinformation spread by paid think tankies who have never read about what Uyghur culture is. Instead, they believe being Muslim is the sole representation of Uyghur culture, and they can't even tell the difference between Turkic and Turkish. So, I suggest you at least read narratives on both sides and make an educated, evidence-based opinion. Or, go to Xinjiang after the pandemic, see by yourself, talk to all the 46 ethnic minority groups there, and boost their local economy! What do you mean by "imposing communism"? You don't need to be a communist to enjoy the infrastructure and the policy incentives. You only need to be a citizen. And do you even know what communism is? Basically, the government regulates the economy to reduce the rich and poor gap. China is only a socialist country still trying to achieve communism. I'm not "imposing" you to like it, but it is not pure evil. "Afghanistan has never been taken over by a foreign aggressor"??? Sure, the Taliban likes your recognition of their hard-fought war, bro~ Let's hope they follow your wish to refuse the opportunity of "Belt & Road" that could help their economy. LOL
@srinivasanbalasubramani33674 жыл бұрын
Soon Hindustan (India) will be the southern border for Tajikistan along with Afghanistan. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇦🇫🇦🇫🇦🇫🇹🇯🇹🇯🇹🇯
@rezaheydari2313Ай бұрын
شما که دیگه تاجیک نیستین وقتی که غذاتون با قاشق نمیخورین حتی یه کلام تاجیکی صحبت نکردین