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	Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Persian
		Non-Persian Iranian languages of Iran, mostly in their specifically Jewish varieties, such as Yazdi, etc., but also Kurdish; these are spoken by elderly immigrants in Israel and seem to be withering in Iran, due to the spread of education and the mass media.
		As a Jewish language, written Judeo-Persian belongs to the same type as written Judeo-Arabic of the Classical period, as it uses CNP as a model, is written in Hebrew characters, and includes some Hebrew loanwords (but not as many as in Yiddish).
		The spelling was sometimes phonetic, due to the lack of Muslim education.These lapses in orthography are important for determining the historical Persian pronunciations.
	www.jewish-languages.org /judeo-persian.html (1513 words)

	Persian language
		Persian is a member of the Indo-European family of languages, and within that family, it belongs to the Indo-Iranian (Aryan) branch.
		Judeo-Persian - Known among Iranian Jews themselves as Latorayi (meaning: 'not the language of the Torah') is an informal dialect among Iranian Jews which uses Persian grammar and structure, but heavily borrows words from Hebrew.
		The Persian language was crucial in the formation of a common language of the Central, North and Northwest regions of the Indian subcontinent.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/p/pe/persian_language.html (1378 words)

	Beth Hatefutsoth - Related Links
		It is related to Tadjiki Persian, a language belonging to the Iranian group of Indo-European languages and is close to Farsi and Judeo-Persian.
		Judeo Tatar is the Jewish version of Tatar, a language belonging to the Altaic family of languages.
		The term Judeo-Persian is principally used in connection to a variant of New Persian specific to Jewish texts.
	www.bh.org.il /Links/JewishLangs.asp (2803 words)

	Dzhidi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a collective term, Dzhidi refers to a number of Indo-Iranian languages or dialects spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire.
		Persian became to a great extent the language of everyday life among the Jews of Babylonia; and a hundred years after the conquest of that country by the Sassanids an amora of Pumbedita, Rab Joseph (d.
		But in the Aramaic Targum there are very few Persian words, because after the middle of the third century the Targumim on the Pentateuch and the Prophets were accepted as authoritative and received a fixed textual form in the Babylonian schools.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dzhidi_language (324 words)

	Iranian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The imperial period of the Iranian languages is that of the Persian Empire, particularly the Achaemenid dynasty.
		The Iranian languages are Fahlavi (Pahlavi), Dari, Khuzi, Persian, and Seryani.
		Some Azerbaijani poets however, such as Qatran Tabrizi (d465 A.H.), used the word "Persian" and "Pahlavi" interchangeably to describe their native language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iranian_language (908 words)

	Judeo-Persian language
		Jewish Language Research Website Dedicated to the study and preservation of the various Jewish mixed languages, from Yiddish and Ladino through Judeo-Persian and Krimchak.
		PERSIAN RESCUE - Persian Cat Adoption and Email List Persian rescue involves the rescue of pedigreed Persian cats and related cats in the United States.
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Judeo-Persian_language.html (364 words)

	Dalia Yasharpour, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures [UCLA Spotlight]
		Ben Shemuel was clearly quite familiar with the Persian literary styles of his time, Yasharpour says, and “he was unabashed about seeing Jewish elements integrated with the Muslim.” At one point, the mystical Muslim master expounds on Maimonides’ thirteen principles of the Jewish faith.
		The author, Elisha ben Shemuel, was a Jew living in 17th-century Persia, a poet writing the Persian language using Hebrew script and addressing a Jewish audience.
		She had simply been asked by a collector to look at a manuscript because he “wanted to know what it was.” The collector, a member of the Iranian Jewish community in Los Angeles, knew Yasharpour was studying the confluence of Jewish and Persian history and culture.
	www.ucla.edu /spotlight/archive/html_2003_2004/stud0304_yasharpour.html (529 words)

	Iranian languages
		Old Persian, Middle Persian (Dialects: Pahlavi, Manichaean) Persian (Farsi), Dari, Tajik, Hazaragi, Dzhidi (Judeo-Persian), Judeo**-Bukharic 2.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/i/ir/iranian_languages.html (186 words)

	International Jewish Cemetery Project - Afghanistan
		The origin of the Afghan Jewish community seems to be Persian as the languages used by the Jews of Afghanistan were Judeo-Persian, Hebrew, and some Aramaic." [January 2002]
		Cemetery: "...near the town of Herat in Tchcharan, old graves were found on which the writing was in Persian and in the Hebrew language.
		Most scholars argue that the community fled into China since there is a significant influence from Persian speaking Jews from Khorasan on the Chinese Jewish community's texts and ceremonies.
	www.jewishgen.org /cemetery/asia-pac-ind/afghanistan.html (2233 words)

	The national language of Iran is Persian
		The national language of Iran is Persian, also known as Farsi, an Indo-European language.
		Spoken by Persian Zoroastrians in their personal communications as a private language.
		Distinct from Khorasani, a local Persian dialect in Khorasan.
	www.kkhec.ac.ir /Iran%20information/The%20national%20language%20of%20Iran%20is%20Persian2.htm (1617 words)

	A Brief History of Iranian Jews
		Scientists and intellectuals from all over got together and thousands of books were translated into Arabic from Greek, Hebrew, Persian and other languages.
		Iranian Jews were writing dari (new Persian) in Hebrew characters, the same way Christians used Syriac script to write Persian.
		Initiated by the Syriac, Greek, Jews and Persians to preserve the ancient knowledge, the movement started in Syria and flourished in Baghdad.
	www.iranonline.com /History/jews-history/3.html (1458 words)

	LoLA: Preliminary List of Languages and Linguistic Groups in Los Angeles
		The typological similarities and differences between Yiddish, Sephardic, Judeo-Persian (and Judeo-Tat), Hebrew and other languages (Russian, Polish, Rumanian, Persian) used in the families of Jewish origin and/or (religious) communities.
		Classical Arabic and its main cultural and religious functions (also for the Moslem speakers of the other languages such as Persian).
		Persian (Farsi), its economic and social role for some areas of LA, areas, blocks and houses with the predominant Persian population (e.g.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /languagesofla/lolalangs.htm (2000 words)

	Encyclopedia: Morgan Bible
		Thus the book consists of beautiful paintings of events from Hebrew scripture, set in the scenery and customs of thirteenth-century France, depicted from a Christian perspective, and surrounded by text in three scripts and five languages (Latin, Persian, Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Hebrew).
		Abbas ordered inscriptions in Persian to be added.
		Cardinal Bernard Maciejowski, Bishop of Cracow, had the book given as a gift to Abbas I (Shah of Persia) in 1608.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Morgan-Bible (330 words)

	Ethnologue: Israel
		Many loanwords from Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and several European languages.
		(JUDEO-ARAMAIC, NASH DIDÁN, LISHANA DIDÁN, KURDIT AZERBAIJANIT, LISHANA SHEL IMRANI, PERSIAN AZERBAIJAN JEWISH-ARAMAIC, GALIGALU, LAKHLÓKHI, LISHANIT TARGUM) [TRG] 4,500 in Israel (1994 H. Mutzafi); 500 in Georgia (1994 Mutzafi); 300 in Azerbaijan (1994 Mutzafi); none to 50 in Kazakhstan (1994 Mutzafi); 5,300 in all countries.
		Much intelligibility with Tunisian Judeo Arabic, some with Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic, but none with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Isra.html (1868 words)

	languagehat.com: THE LANGUAGES OF SEFARAD.
		There, where they lived in large numbers and were not competing with significant preexisting Jewish communities, they kept their Spanish language, larded with Hebrew and, more and more, with borrowings from the languages that surrounded them: Turkish, Persian, the Balkan languages, and eventually Italian and French.
		It was primarily a spoken language, written down at first only in word-by-word paraphrases of Hebrew texts (parallel to the Taitsch used by the Yiddish-speaking community), but became a literary vehicle with the publication of the Me’am Lo’ez, an extensive commentary on the Torah, in the 18th century.
		The bulk of the community went to North Africa (where some still speak the dialect called Haketia), from which many later moved eastward into the Ottoman Empire and concentrated in cities like Constantinople, Alexandria, and Salonica.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/000529.php (914 words)

	Propaganda leaflets of World War 2: Translation of Hebrew language propaganda booklet
		Yiddish, Ladino (a language spoken in Spain by the Sephardic Jewish community), Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian-Turkish and other dialects spoken by the Mountain Jews of the Caucasus or the Bukharans, Judeo-Kurdish (which is an Aramaic based dialect), Judeo-Maghrebi dialect.
		Judith Rosenhouse and fellow scientists did extensive earlier research on the Judeo-Arabic languages in general.
		"Of the eight books he wrote and illustrated for the Ministry of Information, several appeared not only in European languages but in three forms of Arabic (classical, Moghrabi and Ladino, the Hebrew script for Moroccan Jews), and Farsi."
	members.home.nl /ww2propaganda/transla3.htm (1050 words)

	FORWARD : FastForward
		They spoke Arabic or French or English when conducting business with the outside world, but to each other they also spoke Arabi mal Yehud (Judeo-Arabic), a language spoken only by the Jews of Iraq, consisting of a mixture of Arabic and Hebrew, as well as scattered words from Aramaic, Persian, Turkish, French and English.
		Judeo-Arabic was thus a kind of repository of the Iraqi community's history; as with so many of the world's traditional Jewish languages, it is today spoken mostly by the elderly.
		Like language, cuisine is a repository of a community's history, often in the vestigial foodways of foreign invaders long since repelled.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.09.27/fast2.html (1307 words)

	Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Arabic
		It is not uncommon to use script as a religious identification for a language, as with the Arabic script of Persian and Urdu, for example, which symbolizes the Muslim nature of the language communities.
		On the other hand, Standard Arabic is still the anchor for the left side of the Judeo-Arabic continuum, as it is in constant contact with the ethnolect and influences its structure and development.
		The other extreme of the Arabic continuum (standard Arabic) is not found in full in Literary Judeo-Arabic, but it is a resource for style shifting, as many authors attempted to use it with mixed success.
	www.jewish-languages.org /judeo-arabic.html (2364 words)

	Iranian languages - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
		Southwestern #, Manichaean) Persian (Farsi), Dari, Tajik, Hazaragi, Dzhidi (Judeo-Persian), Judeo-Bukharic # Judeo-Tat, Muslim_Tat # Fars, Lari # Luri, Bakhtiari, Feyli, Kumzari (
	www.indexsuche.com /Iranian_languages.html (152 words)

	CDEISI Main Page
		Eleven of the twelve members know and use in his or her teaching and research one or more of the major languages of the Islamic world.
		Persian language and literature, Arabic literature, Sufism, Iranian religions.
		Arabic and Islamic studies, history of religions, Islamic theology, religion and social conflict.
	www.unc.edu /depts/cdeisi/emory.htm (511 words)

	OSU Middle East Studies Center
		Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Persian Language Program, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
		Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Division of Comparative Studies
		Associate Professor, Coordinator of Arabic Language Program, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
	oia.osu.edu /mesc/faculty.html (307 words)

	The Yiddish Voice דאָס ייִדישע קול
		Jewish-Languages Mailing List, for academic discussion of Jewish languages, including Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Jewish English, Jewish Malayalam, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-French, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Iranian, Judeo-Italian (Italkian), Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Portuguese (Shuadit) / Judeo-Provencal, Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo / Ladino), and Yiddish.
		The Jewish Language Research Website is devoted to academic research on the many Jewish Languages, past and present.
		World of Hebrew and Jewish Languages contains both interesting and scholarly content, from a surprising source, about Jewish languages, including Yiddish.
	www.klezmorim.com (307 words)

	The Yiddish Voice דאָס ייִדישע קול
		Jewish-Languages Mailing List, for academic discussion of Jewish languages, including Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Jewish English, Jewish Malayalam, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-French, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Iranian, Judeo-Italian (Italkian), Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Portuguese (Shuadit) / Judeo-Provencal, Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo / Ladino), and Yiddish.
		World of Hebrew and Jewish Languages contains both interesting and scholarly content, from a surprising source, about Jewish languages, including Yiddish.
		The Jewish Language Research Website is devoted to academic research on the many Jewish Languages, past and present.
	www.klezmorim.com (307 words)

	Beth Hatefutsoth - Related Links
		It is related to Tadjiki Persian, a language belonging to the Iranian group of Indo-European languages and is close to Farsi and Judeo-Persian.
		Judeo Alsatian is the Jewish variant of the Alsatian dialect of German (part of the Alemannic group of German dialects) as it was spoken in the ancient Jewish communities of Alsace, France.
		The Berber languages and dialects, spoken over a large area from western Egypt to Mauritania, are descendants of the native languages of North Africa and belong to the Berbero-Libyan group of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Hamito-Semitic) family of languages.
	www.bh.org.il /Links/JewishLangs.asp (2795 words)

	Freedom of Speech - in Any Language - Middle East Quarterly - Summer 2004
		In the early years of the state, Hebrew primacy came at the expense of the numerous languages spoken by Jewish immigrants, particularly Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Judeo-Berber, vernacular languages that were both discouraged and marginalized in the new Hebrew-speaking society.
		Hebrew, as the most widely spoken language and as the language of government, has become to Israel what English is to the United States: the language to be used by immigrants (whose native languages number in the hundreds) so as to create a monolithic Israeli linguistic identity.
		A proper balance would allow simultaneously for a unifying national language, such as Arabic or Hebrew, together with a legally protected right for all minority groups to speak their native languages at home and to print material in these languages for personal use without fear of state repression.
	www.meforum.org /article/635 (4314 words)

	The Yiddish Voice דאָס ייִדישע קול
		Jewish-Languages Mailing List, for academic discussion of Jewish languages, including Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, Jewish English, Jewish Malayalam, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-French, Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Iranian, Judeo-Italian (Italkian), Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Portuguese (Shuadit) / Judeo-Provencal, Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo / Ladino), and Yiddish.
		The Jewish Language Research Website is devoted to academic research on the many Jewish Languages, past and present.
		World of Hebrew and Jewish Languages contains both interesting and scholarly content, from a surprising source, about Jewish languages, including Yiddish.
	www.klezmorim.com (4314 words)

	Beth Hatefutsoth - Related Links
		It is related to Tadjiki Persian, a language belonging to the Iranian group of Indo-European languages and is close to Farsi and Judeo-Persian.
		Jewish Aramaic is a generic term describing dialects and variants of Aramaic, a language closely related to Hebrew and belonging to the western branch of the Semitic family of languages.
		Judeo-Tat is the native language of the ancient Jewish communities of Mountain Jews in the Daghestan region of the Caucasus.
	www.bh.org.il /Links/JewishLangs.asp (2795 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of languages
		Judeo-Persian was a language spoken by the Jews living in Persia.
		Hazaragi is a dialect of the Persian language, with a significant deviation from it to be on the borderline of being a separate language.
		Anlo (IPA: Aŋlo) is a dialect of the Ewe language.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-languages (6770 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of languages
		Judeo-Persian was a language spoken by the Jews living in Persia.
		Kerek is a language of Russia that belongs to the northern branch of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages.
		Hazaragi is a dialect of the Persian language, with a significant deviation from it to be on the borderline of being a separate language.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-languages (8144 words)

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