Central Asian Arabic
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Central Asian Arabic | |
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Jugari Arabic | |
Native to | Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
Speakers | (16,000 cited 1992–2023)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:abh – Tajiki Arabicauz – Uzbeki Arabic |
Glottolog | cent2410 |
Enclaves in Afghanistan, Iran and Uzbekistan where Central Asian Arabic is still spoken. In brackets, after the name of each region, is the number of villages with Arabic-speaking inhabitants. |
Central Asian Arabic or Jugari Arabic (in Arabic: العربية الآسيوية الوسطى) refers to a set of four closely-related
The Central Asian Arabic varieties are markedly different from all other
Along with
These varieties are estimated to be spoken by an estimated 6,000 people total in Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, but declining in number; in all four of thrse countries, Arabic is not an official language.[4]
History
It was once spoken among
With the establishment of the
Varieties
Giorgi Tsereteli and Isaak Natanovich Vinnikov were responsible for the first academic studies of Central Asian Arabic, which is heavily influenced by the local languages in phonetics, vocabulary and syntax.
The Jugari Arabic comprises four varieties: Bakhtiari Arabic (also called Bactrian Arabic), Bukhara Arabic (also called Buxara Arabic), Kashkadarya Arabic and Khorasani Arabic. The first three have their speakers spread across Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Khorasani came to be considered by scholars as part of the Central Asian Arabic dialect family only recently.
It is reported to be spoken in 5 villages of
Numbers
- wahid > fad
- ithnaân > isnen
- thalatha > salaâs
- arba’a > orba’
See also
- History of Arabs in Afghanistan
- Khoja
- ru:Среднеазиатские арабы - central Asian Arabs
References
- ^ Tajiki Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
Uzbeki Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) - ^ ISBN 978-1-134-39631-3.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-134-39631-3.
- ^ ISBN 978-0195139778.
- ^ Prof. Dr. Aydın Usta, Türkler ve İslamiyet, Yeditepe Yayınevi, 1. Baskı, March 2020, s. 56-57 (using the Turkish translation of el-Kamil fi't-Tarih by Ibn Al-Athir as a source)
- ^ Peter R. Blood, ed. Afghanistan: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 2001
- ^ (in Russian) Ethnic Minorities of Uzbekistan: Arabs Archived February 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine by Olga Kobzeva
- ^ (in Russian) Ethnic Minorities of Tajikistan: Arabs Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-9004186064.
- ISBN 978-3110165784.
- ^ Ulrich Seeger, On the Relationship of the Central Asian Arabic Dialects (translated from German to English by Sarah Dickins)
Bibliography
- Versteegh, Kees. The Arabic Language. — Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 410 p. — ISBN 9780748645282.