The Tajik language has been written in three alphabets over the course of its history: an adaptation of the Perso-Arabic script, an adaptation of the Latin script and an adaptation of the Cyrillic script. Any script used specifically for Tajik may be referred to as the Tajik alphabet, which is written as алифбои тоҷикӣ in Cyrillic characters, الفبای تاجیکی with Perso-Arabic script and alifboji toçikī in Latin script.
The front page of Kommunisti Isfara from 15 May 1936
Advertisement in Cyrillic for the admission of the graduate students by the research institutes of the Tajik Academy of Sciences
A biscriptal sign incorporating an English word, "Zenith", written in the Latin script, and Tajik written in Cyrillic
An illustration from Kommunisti Isfara, a newspaper published in Isfara in northern Tajikistan, inviting citizens to vote in the local labor councils elections on 29 December 1939. The text reads: Dekabr 29, Rūzi 5-m şaşrūza, Hama ba intixobho ba sovethoji mahalliji deputathoji mehnatkaşon.
The Persian alphabet, also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic alphabet with five additional letters: پ چ ژ گ, in addition the obsolete ڤ.
Example showing the Nastaʿlīq calligraphic style's proportion rules[citation needed]