‌🔻The issue of returning to the Persian script or the ancestors’ alphabet is heating up again in Tajikistan.

The Persian line and language are among the symbols of Tajiks’ national identity, and many of them consider the revival of the Persian script in Tajikistan necessary in the current regional and global conditions.

A recent order by Emomali Rahmon, the President of Tajikistan, to strengthen the teaching of the ancestors’ alphabet—meaning the Persian script—has given many Tajiks hope that perhaps, step by step, the Persian script will replace Cyrillic.

Sohrab Zia reports from the city of Dushanbe.