Surudi Milli


"Surudi Millí" is the national anthem of Tajikistan, officially adopted on 7 September 1994.

History

Upon its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Tajikistan retained the Soviet-era regional anthem, lyrics and all, as its national anthem for a time before replacing the lyrics in 1994. This was in contrast to other former Soviet states like Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan that appropriated their old Soviet-era regional anthems as national ones but did so without the Soviet lyrics.
The lyrics were written by Gulnazar Keldi and the music was composed by Suleiman Yudakov, the same melody from the "State Anthem of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic".
The Cyrillic script is the only official script of the country and the Perso-Arabic script is not well known in the country itself and is just provided as a comparison to the Tajik language since it is a dialect of Persian.

Lyrics and translation

Official lyrics

English translation

Our country so beloved,
Happy we are to see thy dignity.
Let thy joy and prosperity fore’er be.
For aeons have we new horizons reached;
Together aligned we stand under thy flag – under thy flag.
Long live my homeland,
My free Tajikistan!
Thou art our symbol tribal,
Thou showest us our hope of the departed,
Thou art for thy sons a world eternal,
Thy spring shall ne’er fade away,
We shall continue to remain loyal to thee – loyal to thee.
Long live my homeland,
My free Tajikistan!
Thou art a mother of us all,
Thou ’long with thy future are our future,
Thine essence is the essence of our bodies and souls,
Thou giv’st us amaranthine happiness,
Because of thee, Tajikistan, we love the world – love the world.
Long live my homeland,
My free Tajikistan!