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Judeo-Persian
Also known as Dzhidi, Judæo-Persian
thumb|Seven Priests sounding horns at Wall of Jericho. From an illustrated manuscript of Emrani's Fath-nameh. Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by Jews and Judeo-Persian texts (written in the Hebrew alphabet). As a collective term, Judeo-Persian refers to a number of Judeo-Iranian languages spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire, including Iranian Jews, Mountain Jews, Afghan Jews, and Bukharan Jews.
Key facts
- Language.fam4
- Western
- Language.date
- 2018
- Language.fam3
- Iranian
- Language.name
- Judeo-Persian
- Language.states
- IsraelIranAfghanistanUzbekistanTajikistanAzerbaijanRussiaDagestan
- Language.speakers
- in Israel
- Language.ref
- e25
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Indo-Iranian
- Language.fam5
- Southwestern
- Language.fam6
- Persian
- Language.script
- Hebrew
- Language.iso2
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25 sectionsContents
- Literature
- Earliest Judeo-Persian writings
- Biblical epics
- [[Shahin Shirazi|Mowlānā Shāhin-i Shirāzi]]
- Pentateuchal epic
- ''Ardashir-nameh''
- Emrani
- '' Shoftim-nameh''
- ''Daniel-nameh''
- Mishnah and midrash
- ''Ganj-nameh''
- Biblical commentaries
- Shimon Hakham: Commentary on Exodus 3-4
- Historical texts
- [[Bābāi b. Lutf]]: ''Kitab-i Anusi'' (The Book of a Forced Convert)
- [[Bābāi b. Farhād]]: ''Kitāb-i Sar guzasht-i Kāshān'' (The Book of Events in Kashan)
- Liturgical poems
- Printing
- Characteristics
- Contemporary dialects
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Seven Priests sounding horns at Wall of Jericho. From an illustrated manuscript of Emrani's Fath-nameh. Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by Jews and Judeo-Persian texts (written in the Hebrew alphabet). As a collective term, Judeo-Persian refers to a number of Judeo-Iranian languages spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire, including Iranian Jews, Mountain Jews, Afghan Jews, and Bukharan Jews.
The speakers refer to their language as Fārsi. Some non-Jews refer to it as "dzhidi" (also written as "zidi", "judi" or "jidi"), which means "Jewish" in a derogatory sense.