Founded in the name of Turaqul Zehni — linguist, poet and lexicographer of the Tajik tongue — to keep one of the world’s oldest living languages thriving into its next age: digital, global, machine-read.
Within a single lifetime, Tajik was written three different ways. Zehni recorded the word through every change — and lost nothing.
The next change will be the deepest yet. The Zehni Foundation exists so that when language becomes data, the word still arrives whole.
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From the bazaars of Samarkand, Persian words traveled the caravan routes into the everyday speech of the world.
Endowments, fellowships and gifts of expertise sustain a heritage that belongs to everyone. We would be honoured to begin a conversation.
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