Leshon Bukharim

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Leshon Bukharim is the traditional Jewish dialect of Tajik spoken historically by the Bukharan Jewish community of Central Asia.

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Leshon Bukharim canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish ethnolect
dialect
variety of Tajik
alternativeName Bukharian Jewish dialect
Bukhori
associatedReligion Judaism
closelyRelatedTo Dari
Persian
Tajik
linked to: Tajiks
containsLexicalInfluenceFrom Arabic
Aramaic
Hebrew
Russian
Uzbek
culturalRole marker of Bukharan Jewish identity
ethnicAssociation Bukharan Jews
geographicDistribution Israel
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
New York City
Queens
Tajikistan
United States
Uzbekistan
hasScriptDirection right-to-left (Hebrew script)
historicalRegion Bukhara
linked to: Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Central Asia
Samarkand
historicalWritingSystem Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script

Hebrew alphabet
Latin alphabet
ISO639Status treated as variety of Tajik in many classifications
languageFamily Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
religiousFunction used in Jewish religious life
used in community education
spokenBy Bukharan Jews
status endangered language
subfamily Persian languages
traditionalLanguageOf Bukharan Jewish community
linked to: Bukharan Jews
usedIn community media
oral tradition
writingSystem Hebrew alphabet

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Judeo-Tajik hasAlternativeName Leshon Bukharim