DUSHANBE, July 14, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- Dushanbe is making preparations for marking State Language Day on July 22. 

Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor, said the Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev had signed a special resolution on this subject.

Under this resolution, mass festivities will be held in Dushanbe’s parks of Druzhba Narodov, and Molodyozhnoye Ozero as well as at the Square of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow and in the territory of the Culture Center Poytakht-80 (Amphitheater).

We will recall that President Emomali Rahmon proposed designating 2008 the Year of the Tajik Language, and publishing by September 2008 a new two-volume Tajik dictionary, together with grammars for the classical and modern literary languages.