 He saw those who pushed for switching to the Arabic alphabet, and the journalists and editors who replaced commonly used Tajik words with their Arabic equivalents, as an effort to erode the Tajik language and culture.Though the government had focused on promoting Tajik by limiting the use of Russian, it has since made efforts to promote Russian in public schools.Many of Sobir's poems have been set to music by Tajik composers, and are played on Tajik TV channels on an almost daily basis.