Bukharic

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Bukharic is a Jewish dialect of Tajik spoken historically by the Bukharan Jewish community of Central Asia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bukharic canonical 3
Bukhara Persian 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Asian language variety
Jewish dialect
variety of Tajik
alternativeName Bukhari
Bukhori
Judeo-Tajik
closelyRelatedTo Dari
Persian
Tajik
linked to: Tajiks
containsLoanwordsFrom Arabic
Aramaic
Hebrew
Russian
Uzbek
countryHistoricallySpokenIn Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
declineCause language shift to Hebrew
language shift to Russian
diasporaCountry Australia
Austria
Canada
Germany
Israel
Russia
United States
ethnicAssociation Bukharan Jewish community
historicallyWrittenIn Hebrew script
Perso-Arabic script
historicalRegion Bukhara
linked to: Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Central Asia
Emirate of Bukhara
linked to: Khanate of Bukhara

Samarkand
ISO639-3Code bhh
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
languageSubfamily Eastern Iranian languages
religiousFunction language of Jewish religious life in Central Asia
spokenBy Bukharan Jews
status endangered language
usedFor daily communication among Bukharan Jews
religious poetry
secular literature
writingSystem Cyrillic alphabet
Hebrew alphabet
Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bukhori hasAlternativeName Bukharic
Central Asian Persian dialects hasPart Bukhara Persian
linked to: Bukharic