Bukhori language

Infobox Language
name=Bukhori
nativename=בוכורי
states=Israel, Uzbekistan, United States, Tajikistan, Afghanistan
region=Central Asia
speakers=~110,000 [ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bhh Ethnologue.com article on Bukharic] ]
familycolor=Indo-European
fam2=Indo-Iranian
fam3=Iranian
fam4=Western
fam5=Southwestern
fam6=Persian
fam7=Tajik
iso2=ira|iso3=bhhPersian language

Bukhori (also known as Bukhari, Bukharic, Bukharan, or Bukharian) 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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=vJZm9amnoAoC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=who+are+the+bukharian+jews&source=web&ots=X1vcf5ytQQ&sig=yJx5VVpQe46GCJ9BG3J9u1tuG0U#PPA85,M1]

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.

Like most Jewish languages, Bukhori is written using the Hebrew alphabet.

Kol Israel (קול ישראל) broadcasts in Bukhori at 13:45 and again at 23:00 Europe time.Fact|date=November 2007

ee also

*Azerbaijani Jews
*Bukharan Jews
*Bukhara
*Dushanbe synagogue
*Emirate of Bukhara
*History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union
*Kazakh Jews
*Mountain Jews
*Persian Jews
*Shimon Hakham
*Tajik Jews
*Uzbek Jews

References

External links

* [http://bjews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=listarticles&secid=14 Learn Basic Bukhori]