Bukharian
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Jewish dialect derived from the Tajik branch of the Persian language
Key facts
- Native to
- Uzbekistan , Tajikistan , Afghanistan
- Ethnicity
- Bukharan Jews
- Native speakers
- 117,840 in all countries (2018–2019)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Southwestern Persian Tajik Bukharian
- Writing system
- Hebrew , Cyrillic , Latin
- Recognised minority language in
- Tajikistan (In Gorno-Badakhshan )
- Iso 639 3
- bhh
- Glottolog
- bukh1238
- Elp
- Bukhori
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bukharian, also known as Judeo-Bukharic and Judeo-Tajik (autonym: Bukhori, בוכארי, Бухорӣ, Buxorī), is a Judeo-Persian dialect historically spoken by the Bukharan Jews of Central Asia. It is a Jewish dialect derived from—and largely mutually intelligible with—the Eastern Persian varieties of Tajiki and Dari.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bukharian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.