The article compares some words of «Nafahot-ul-uns» of Abdurrahman Jami with central and southern Tajik dialects. It is emphasized that no separate research has been conducted on this issue so far. On the basis of factual material, it is shown that «Nafahot-ul-uns» words have different range of use in dialects; some of them have a limited scope of use or are not used at all, others are preserved in most dialects or in some separate small dialects, and the third part is still used in their original form in some villages. The analyses finds out that the southern and central dialects of the Tajik language have a clear role in the preservation of old words, where some of them have still kepttheir original form and meaning, while others are used in these dialects changingtheirpronunciation or meaning.
«Nafahot-ul-uns», contemporary dialects, ancient meaning,evolution of form аnd semantics, legacy of ancestors, lexical elements, history of Tajik nation, sense
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