Judeo-Iranian languages
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The Judeo-Iranian languages (or dialects) are a number of related
Persian Empire. Judeo-Iranian dialects are generally conservative in comparison with those of their Muslim neighbours. Judeo-Shirazi, for example, remains close to the language of Hafez
.
Like most Jewish languages, all the Judeo-Iranian languages contain great numbers of Hebrew loanwords, and are written using variations of the Hebrew alphabet. Another name used for some Judeo-Iranian dialects is Latorayi, sometimes interpreted by folk etymology as "not [the language] of the Torah". This refers to a form of the language in which the number of Hebrew and Aramaic loanwords is deliberately maximised to allow it to function as a secret code. In general, however, the number of such loanwords is small compared with that in other Jewish languages such as Yiddish or Judaeo-Spanish.[2]
Languages
The languages include:
- Dzhidi(literary Judeo-Persian)
- Luterā'i (a secret language combining an Aramaic and Hebrew vocabulary with Persian conjunctions and grammatical morphemes)[3][4][5]
- Bukhori (Judeo-Bukharic, Judeo-Tajik, the Jewish language of the distinctive Jewish community centered in Bukhara)
- Judeo-Golpaygani, the Judeo-Persian language traditionally spoken by the Judæo-Hamedani, and Persian, among those speakers remaining in Iran, and by English and Hebrew by those emigrating to the United States and Israel.
- Judeo-Kermani (spoken in the environs of Yazd and elsewhere in Yazd province, in central Iran; in Kerman and elsewhere in Kerman province, in south-central Iran)
- Judeo-Shirazi (spoken in Shiraz and elsewhere in Fars province, in southwestern Iran)
- Isfahanand environs, as well as elsewhere in central and southern Isfahan province, Iran)
- Judeo-Hamedani (spoken in Hamadan and elsewhere in Hamadan province, in western Iran)
- Judeo-Kashani (spoken in Kashan,[7][8][9] Abyaneh,[9] and elsewhere in northern Isfahan province, in western Iran)
- Luflā'i (a Kashani variant of Luterā'i)[3][4][5]
- Judeo-Borujerdi (spoken in Borujerd and elsewhere in Lorestan province, in western Iran)
- Judeo-Nehevandi (spoken in Nahavand and elsewhere in northern Hamadan province, in western Iran)
- Khansarand elsewhere in far-western Isfahan province, in western Iran)
- Republic of Azerbaijan, Dagestan (North Caucasus).
- Jewish Neo-Aramaic languages, while not Iranian languages, were spoken in Iranian Azerbaijan and Iranian Kurdistan.
Language samples
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Oral history in Judeo-Shirazi
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Oral history in Judeo-Hamedani-Borujerdi
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Oral history in Judeo-Esfahani
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Oral history in Lishan Deni (Jewish Neo-Aramaic)
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Oral history in Lishan Didan (Jewish Neo-Aramaic)
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Oral history in Lishan Noshan (Jewish Neo-Aramic)
See also
- Jews in Iran
- Jewish languages
References
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- ^ Habib Borjian, “Judeo-Iranian Languages,” in Lily Kahn and Aaron D. Rubin, eds., A Handbook of Jewish Languages, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015, pp. 234-295. [1].
- ^ a b "Judeo-Iranian". Archived from the original on 2016-07-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b "Encyclopædia Iranica: Loterāʾi". Archived from the original on 2016-07-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b "Encyclopædia Iranica: Judeo-Persian Communities of Iran x. Judeo-Persian Jargon (Loterāʾi)". Archived from the original on 2016-07-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Levy, Habib (1999). Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran. Translated by George W. Maschke.
- ^ "I Think, Therefore I Am - Original Persian" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2016-07-25.
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- Schmidt, Rüdiger, ed. (1989). Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum. Wiesbaden: Reichert. ISBN 3-88226-413-6.