NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Central Asian Arabic

Central Asian Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and currently facing extinction. It was once spoken among Central Asia's numerous settled and nomadic Arab communities, which inhabited areas in Samarqand, Bukhara, Qashqadarya, Surkhandarya (present-day Uzbekistan), and Khatlon (present-day Tajikistan). First wave of Arabs migrated to this region in the 8th century during the Muslim conquests and was later joined by groups of Arabs from Balkh and Andkhoy (present-day Afghanistan). Due to heavy Islamic influences, Arabic quickly became the common language of science and literature of the epoch. Most Central Asian Arabs lived in isolated communities and did not favour intermarriages with the local population. This factor helped their language survive in a multilingual milieu until the 20th century. With the establishment of the Soviet rule Arab communities faced major linguistic and identity changes having had to abandon nomadic lifestyles and gradually mixing with Uzbeks, Tajiks and Turkmen. According to the 1959 census, only 34% of Arabs, mostly elderly, spoke their language at a native level. Others reported Uzbek or Tajik as their mothertongue. Nowadays Central Asian Arabic (heavily influenced by the local languages in phonetics, vocabulary and syntax) is spoken in 5 villages of Surkhandarya, Qashqadarya and Bukhara. In Uzbekistan, there are at least two dialects of Central Asian Arabic: Bukharian (influenced by Tajik) and Qashqadaryavi (influeced by Turkic languages). These dialects are not mutually intelligible.^[1] Arabic ( or just ) is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. ... Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... Languages Arabic other languages (Arab minorities) Religions Predominantly Islam Some adherents of Druze, Judaism, Samaritan, Christianity Related ethnic groups Jews, Canaanites, other Semitic-speaking groups An Arab (Arabic: ); is a member of a Semitic group of people whose cultural, linguistic, and in certain cases, ancestral origins trace back to the... Samarqand Province (Samarkand Province) (Uzbek: Samarqand viloyati/ Ð¡Ð°Ð¼Ð°Ñ€Ò›Ð°Ð½Ð´ Ð²Ð¸Ð»Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸) is an administration division, or viloyati of Uzbekistan located in the center of the country in the basin of Zarafshan River. ... Buxoro Province (Bukhara Province) (Uzbek: Buxoro viloyati / Ð‘ÑƒÑ…Ð¾Ñ€Ð¾ Ð²Ð¸Ð»Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸) is a viloyat (province) of Uzbekistan located in the southwest of the country. ... Qashqadaryo Province (Uzbek: Qashqadaryo viloyati / ÒšÐ°ÑˆÒ›Ð°Ð´Ð°Ñ€Ñ‘ Ð²Ð¸Ð»Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸, old spelling Kashkadarya Province) is an administration division, or viloyati of Uzbekistan, located in the southern part of Uzbekistan in the basin of the Qashqadaryo River and the western slopes of the Pamir Mountains. ... Khatlon is a province of Tajikistan. ... Age of the Caliphs The initial Muslim conquests (632-732) began after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and were marked by a century of rapid Arab expansion beyond the Arabian peninsula under the Rashidun and Umayyad caliphs, ending with the Battle of Toursâ€” resulting in a vast Muslim... Today Balkh (Persian: Ø¨Ù„Ø®) is a small town in the Province of Balkh, Afghanistan, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazari Sharif, and some 74 km (46 miles) south of the Amu Darya, the Oxus River of antiquity, of which a tributary formerly flowed past Balkh. ... Andkhoy (or Andkhui), a town in northern Afghanistan, Faryab Province, is located at , 316 m altitude. ... Islam (Arabic: ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ... Intermarriage normally refers to marriage between people belonging to different religions, tribes, nationalities or ethnic backgrounds. ... â€œCCCPâ€ redirects here. ... The Tajiks are one of the principal ethnic groups of Central Asia, and are primarily found in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tajik or Tadjik (Ñ‚Ð¾Ò·Ð¸ÐºÓ£, ØªØ§Ø¬ÛŒÚ©ÛŒ, tojikÃ) is a descendant of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia. ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ... A pair of languages is said to be mutually intelligible if speakers of one language can readily understand the other language. ...

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Khuzestani Arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoken in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. ...

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Categories: Arabic languages | Languages of Uzbekistan | Languages of Tajikistan | Language stubs The Arabic language is classified as a Semitic language. ... The Arabic language family consists of The Arabic macrolanguage (ISO 639-3 ara), including the living varieties of Arabic as well as Classical Arabic and Standard Arabic. ... Safaitic is the name given to an Old North Arabian dialect, preserved in the form of inscriptions which are written in a type of South Semitic script. ... The Thamud (Arabic: Ø«Ù…ÙˆØ¯) were an early Arabian people. ... Hasaitic is an Old North Arabian dialect attested in inscriptions in the al-Hasa region of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and at Mileiha. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Fuṣḥa is the standard Arabic language, to be contrasted with spoken varieties of Arabic. ... Maghrebi Arabic is a cover term for the dialects of Arabic spoken in the Maghreb, including Western Sahara, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya. ... Moroccan Arabic, also known as Darija, is the language spoken in the Arabic-speaking areas of Morocco, as opposed to the official communications of governmental and other public bodies which use Modern Standard Arabic, as is the case in most Arabic-speaking countries, while a mixture of French and Moroccan... Algerian Arabic is the dialect or dialects of Arabic native to Algeria. ... Tunisian Arabic is a Maghrebi dialect of the Arabic language, spoken by some 9 million people. ... Andalusian Arabic (also known as Andalusi Arabic and Spanish Arabic) was a dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Al-Andalus, the regions of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal) under Muslim rule. ... Libyan Arabic is a collective term for the closely related spoken varieties of Arabic as spoken in Libya. ... 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Sudanese Arabic, as spoken throughout much of northern Sudan, is the result of a mixing of Egyptian Arabic and Arabic from the Arabian peninsula with local languages (El Rutana). ... Khuzestani Arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoken in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. ... The Judeo-Arabic languages are a collection of Arabic dialects spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Arabic-speaking countries; the term also refers to more or less classical Arabic written in the Hebrew script, particularly in the Middle Ages. ... // Widely used in the Jewish community during its long history there, the Moroccan dialect of Judeo-Arabic has many influences from languages other than Arabic, including Spanish (due to the close proximity of Spain), Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, due to the influx of Sephardic refugees from Spain after the 1492... The Judeo-Yemenite language is the form of Judeo-Arabic spoken by Yemenite Jews. ... Jewish Baghdad Arabic is the Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Baghdad and other towns of Southern Iraq. ... The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi) is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo and Kenya around Kibera by the descendants of Emin Pashas Sudanese soldiers, settled there by the British. ... Juba Arabic is a lingua franca spoken mainly in Southern Sudan, and in communities of people from south Sudan living in towns in Northern Sudan. ...

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