Bukharian | |
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בוכארי, бухорӣ, buxorī | |
Native to | Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan |
Ethnicity | Bukharan Jews |
Native speakers | 117,840 in all countries (2018–2019)[1] |
Hebrew, Cyrillic, Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bhh |
Glottolog | bukh1238 |
ELP | Bukhori |
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Bukharian or Judeo-Bukharic (autonym: Bukhori, Hebrew script: בוכארי, Cyrillic: бухорӣ, Latin: Buxorī)[a] is a Judeo-Persian dialect historically spoken by the Bukharan Jews of Central Asia.[3][4][5] It is a Jewish dialect derived from—and largely mutually intelligible with—the Tajik branch of the Persian language.
Bukharan Jews spoke a dialect of Tajik referred to as Bukhori or Judeo-Tajik, which is still used by Bukharan Jews today.
The term 'the Jewish dialect of Tajik' is often used interchangeably with such terms as Judeo-Tadzhik, Judeo-Tajik, Bukhori, Bukhari, Bukharic, Bukharan, Bukharian, and Bukharit (Cooper 2012:284) in the literature.
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