President Emomali Rahmon has congratulated the people of Tajikistan on the State Language Day, which is marked in Tajikistan on October 5. 

In his televised message, Rahmon, in particular, noted that the Tajik language was an important symbol of the state and political independence.

“It is the language independence that forms the basis of our country’s aspirations for independence,” the president said, noting that the language of each people is a spiritual heritage of that people.

Rahmon called on mass media to pay more attention to the purity of language.  

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.