Judeo-Persian

Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by the Jews living in Iran and Judeo-Persian texts (written in Hebrew alphabet). As a collective term, Judeo-Persian refers to a number of Judeo-Iranian languages spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire, including the Mountain and Bukharan Jewish communities.

Judeo-Persian
Native toIsrael
Iran
Afghanistan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Azerbaijan
Russia
Dagestan
Native speakers
60,000 in Israel (2018)
Indo-European
Writing system
Hebrew
Language codes
ISO 639-2jpr
ISO 639-3jpr
Glottologjude1257

The speakers refer to their language as Fārsi. Some non-Jews refer to it as "dzhidi" (also written as "zidi", "judi" or "jidi"), which means "Jewish" in a derogatory sense.

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