Supporting and celebrating global linguistic diversity
Classification: Indo-European
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Bukharian, Bukhari, Bukharin, Bukharic, Bokharian, Bokharic, Bokharan, Bukharan, Judeo-Tajik |
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Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western Iranian |
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Cryllic, Hebrew, Latin scripts. |
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Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
There are 50,000 speakers in Israel (H. Mutzafi 1995).
Cryllic is most widely used.
Information from: “Bukharan Jews” (7-55) . Michael Zand (2006) , Ḣano Tolmas · World Bukharian Jewish Congress
"The estimated total population of Bukharan Jews at the end of 1987 was 85,000, of whom about 45,000 were in the USSR, about 32,000 in Israel, and about 3,000 in all other countries combined. [Population estimates are as given in article, although they do not add up to 85,000 -Ed.]"
Information from: “Bukharan Tajik” . Shinji Ido (2007) München: Lincom
Uzbek
"Bukhara is one of two large cities where Tajik speakers and Uzbek speakers have been in intensive contact with each other for many centuries. Today virtually all Tajik speakers in Bukhara are bilingual in Tajik and Uzbek. This Tajik-Uzbek bilingualism appears to have had a profound influence on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Bukharan Tajik."
"Since Bukharan Tajik is a spoken variety without a written tradition, written Bukharan Tajik is confined to very few registers, such as e-mail correspondence between native speakers and diaries, though even these are often written in Uzbek, in which, unlike in Tajik, Bukharan Tajik speakers are highly literate. Northern Tajik dialects, of which Bukharan Tajik is one, sometimes serve as a medium of written communication among Tajik speakers from Bukhara and Samarkand."
"Ethnic Tajik minorities are found in a number of countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, but most Tajik speakers are in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; within the latter Samarkand and Bukhara are particularly densely populated by Tajik speakers."