Judeo-Tadjik
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- Language: Judeo-Tadjik
- Alternate names: Bokharic, Bukharian, Bokharan, Bukharan, Bukharic, Judeo-Tajik
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:bhh
- Language family: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian
- Number of speakers: 110,000
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Introduction
Judeo-Tadjik is an Indo-Iranian language. A more descriptive name for the language might be Judæo-Tajiki Persian or Judæo-Tajik. It is the primary traditional language of the Bukharian Jews. Persian بخاری (boxārī), Tajik бухорӣ (buxorī), Bukhori בוכארי (buxori).
Bukhori is based on a substrate of classical Persian, with a large number of Hebrew loanwords, as well as smaller numbers of loanwords from other surrounding languages, including Uzbek, Tajik and Russian. Despite its long history, it still has a great deal of mutual intelligibility with Tajik, and shares many similar features with Dzhidi. The vocabulary consists of a mixture of Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, Tajik, and Uzbek words.