growing Tajik-speaking community lives primarily in areas around Bay Parkway, Sheepshead Bay, and Brighton Beach including not just Tajik speakers from Tajikistan but also Pamiris for whom Tajik is a second language and those from the Tajik-speaking areas of Bukhara and Samarkand in Uzbekistan. Some, including many Pamiris (native speakers of Shughni) live near the Ismaili Jamatkhana in Queens, where Bukhori (a Jewish variety of Tajik) is also a prominent neighborhood language.