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The language is closely related to Middle Persian; it belongs to the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages. A similar, but still different language is spoken by the Muslim Tats of Azerbaijan, a group to which the Mountain Jews have sometimes been considered to belong. Speakers of Juhuri are called Juhuro, which simply means "Jews". Pahlavi is a term that refers: (1) to a script used in Iran derived from the Aramaic script, and (2) more broadly, to Middle Persian, the Middle Iranian language written in this script. ... The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects, including most of the major language families of Europe, as well as many languages of Southwest and South Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) (sometimes also spelled Moslem) is an adherent of Islam. ... The Tat are an Iranian ethnic group from the Caucasus. ...

Juwuri have Semitic (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) elements on all linguistic levels. Juwuri have Hebrew "ayin" (ע) sound while no neighboring languages have it.

In the early 20th century Juhuri used the Hebrew script. In the 1920s Latin script was adapted for it; later it was written in Cyrillic characters. Recently, the use of the Hebrew alphabet has enjoyed renewed popularity for writing the language. This article is mainly about Hebrew letters. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...

The language is presently spoken by an estimated 101,000 people:

• Israel: 70,000
• Azerbaijan: 24,000
• Russia: 7,000

External links

• Juhuro.com
• GJDate.Com or Gorskiy.Com, is an online discussion and dating service site for Mountain Jews (in English and Russian), created and managed by Russell Khaimov since July 2001.
• Judeo-Tat page at Ethnologue.com
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