Bukhori, also known as Bukharic or Bukharan, 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 Bukharan Jews. The State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, transliteration: ; Arabic: دَوْلَةْ اِسْرَائِيل, transliteration: ) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... National anthem National Anthem of the Republic of Uzbekistan Capital Tashkent President Islam Karimov Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev Official language Uzbek Area  – Total  – % water Ranked 55th  447,400 km²  4. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... 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This article or section should be merged with Tajik language Tajiki-Persian, Tajiki or Tadjiki (Tajiki-Persian: Тоҷикӣ, Tojik , Persian تاجیكی Tajiki) is a dialect of Persian. ... Background The Bukharian Jews trace their ancestry to an Israelite tribe that never came back from the Babylonian captivity after exile in the 7th century BCE. In Central Asia, they survived for centuries subject to many conquering influences. ...

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 and Russian. Despite its long history, still has a great deal of mutual intelligibility with Tajik, and shares many similar features with Dzhidi. Persian (فارسی), also known as Farsi (local name), Parsi (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (an Afghan dialect), is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. ... The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ... A loanword (or a borrowing) is a word taken in by one language from another. ... Uzbek (Ozbek tili in Latin script, Ўзбек in Cyrillic script) is a Turkic language spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia. ... Russian (русский язык  listen?) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. ... Dzhidi, or Judæo-Persian, is the Jewish language spoken by the Jews living in Persia. ...

Today, the language is spoken by approximately 10,000 Jews remaining in Uzbekistan, although most of its speakers reside elsewhere, predominantly in Israel (approx. 50,000 speakers), and the United States. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... National anthem National Anthem of the Republic of Uzbekistan Capital Tashkent President Islam Karimov Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev Official language Uzbek Area  – Total  – % water Ranked 55th  447,400 km²  4. ... The State of Israel (Hebrew: מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, transliteration: ; Arabic: دَوْلَةْ اِسْرَائِيل, transliteration: ) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ...

Like most Jewish languages, Bukhori is written using the Hebrew alphabet. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... This article is mainly about Hebrew letters. ...

External links

• Ethnologue.com article on Bukharic (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=BHH)
• Omniglot.com  (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/languages.htm)