Perso-Arabic
The madrasa hand · until 1928
سخنReconstructed
The script of the Registan, which Zehni learned as a khattot at the Tilla-Kori madrasa.
One word · Three hands
A language that changed its body twice in one lifetime.
Turaqul Zehni was trained as a calligrapher and wrote across all three. Type a word in any one of them — or choose one below — and the other two follow, the way he had to.
Latin alphabet
The Soviet hand · 1928 – 1940
SukhanReconstructed
The new alphabet of his 1935 grammar Sarf — a Latin Tajik that lasted barely a decade.
Cyrillic
The living hand · 1940 – today
СуханReconstructed
The script of the 45,000-entry dictionary he helped compile in 1969, and of Tajik now.
sukhan — the word; articulate speech
Write it in three hands
Type in any of the three and the other two follow. The Latin column uses the Tajik Latin alphabet of 1928–1940 (ş = ш, x = х, ū = ӯ, ī = ӣ); typing plain ASCII works too — sh, ch, zh, kh, gh are read as ш, ч, ж, х, ғ. Words held in our hand-checked lexicon show all three spellings as verified. Anything else is marked reconstructed: derived by letter rule, not confirmed by a scholar. Treat those with care — the Perso-Arabic script writes consonants and long vowels but drops short ones, so a rule can place the consonants and still miss the vowel, or choose س where a word's Arabic root wants ص.