Bukhari Tajik

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Bukhari Tajik is a variety of the Tajik language historically spoken by Bukharan Jews, incorporating elements of Hebrew and used primarily in Central Asia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bukhari Tajik canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Iranian language variety
Jewish language
variety of the Tajik language
associatedWithEthnicGroup Bukharan Jews
associatedWithReligion Judaism
basedOn Tajik
linked to: Tajiks
closelyRelatedTo Dari
Persian
linked to: Persian language

Tajik
linked to: Tajiks
containsLexicalElementsFrom Arabic
Aramaic
Hebrew
Russian
culturalRole marker of Bukharan Jewish identity
endangeredStatus endangered language
hasAlternativeName Bukharic
Bukhori
Judeo-Tajik
historicalCenter Bukhara
linked to: Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Samarkand
historicallySpokenBy Bukharan Jews
languageBranch Indo-Iranian languages
languageFamily Indo-European languages
languageGroup Iranian languages
languageSubgroup Southwestern Iranian languages
Western Iranian languages
regionOfOrigin Bukhara Emirate
linked to: Khanate of Bukhara
shiftedTo Modern Hebrew
linked to: Hebrew

Russian
Uzbek
spokenBy Bukharan Jewish community
linked to: Bukharan Jews
spokenIn Afghanistan
Bukhara
linked to: Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Central Asia
Israel
Russia
Samarkand
Tajikistan
United States
Uzbekistan
subclassOf Judeo-Persian language
linked to: Judeo-Persian

New Persian dialect
Tajik dialect
usedFor community communication
oral tradition
religious texts
writingSystem Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Cyrillic script

Hebrew alphabet
Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Judeo-Tajik hasAlternativeName Bukhari Tajik
Bukhari alternativeName Bukhari Tajik