Tajiks believe that the fabled cities of Bukhara and Samarqand are culturally theirs , but these Silk Road oases were given to Uzbekistan when the Bolsheviks started artificially carving Soviet republics into Central Asia with little reference to the national identities of the local population .
Tayikos jupanakax Bujará ukat Samarcanda ukanakax jupanakankaspas ukham amuyapxi ; ukampirus aka thakhix Uzbekistán ukar chikanchayataxiwa .