Can Iranians & Afghans Understand Bukharian?

The Persian language has many different dialects. The Bukhori dialect (бухорӣ / בוכארי), which is also known as Bukharian, is a Jewish dialect of the Tajik variety spoken by Bukharian Jews. Can Persian speakers from Iran and Afghanistan understand it? In this episode, Bobby is representing Bukhori. Naghmeh and Dina are the Iranian Persian speakers, with Dina having been born and raised in Kuwait, and Azarakhsh is the Persian speaker from Afghanistan.

گویش بخاری (یا بخارایی) گویشی از زبان فارسی است که در میان یهودیان آسیای میانه کاربرد دارد. آیا مردم ایران و افغانستان این گویش را متوجه میشوند؟

Bukharan Jews, or Bukharian, is a term referring to the Persian-speaking ethno-religious Jewish group of Central Asia. The name "Bukharan" was coined by foreigners in reference to the former Central Asian Emirate of Bukhara, and its predecessor, the Khanate of Bukhara. They natively called themselves "Isro'il" (Israelites).

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Although the Bukhori dialect contains many Hebrew loanwords, along with some Uzbek and Russian, the base of it comes from Classical Persian, making it sound very poetic. Historically, Bukhori was written using the Hebrew script but in the 20th century the Latin script was adopted and later on due to the influence of the Soviet Union, the Cyrillic script, with a spelling system originating from Talmudic orthography. In recent times, many Bukharian Jews in the West have began using a modified Latin script similar to the one developed by Bukharian Jewish linguist and writer, Yakub Kalontarov, in the process of reviving Bukhori.

بخارایی دارای شمار وام ‌واژه‌های عبری، ازبکی و روسی است. اگر چه تاریخ کهنی دارد ولی هنوز هم برای فارسی ‌زبانان و یهودیان ایرانی دریافتنی است. از لحاظ تاریخی، بخارایی با استفاده از خط عبری نوشته میشد، ولی در صده گذشته، در پی حضور شوروی، این زبان با خط لاتین و سپس سیریلیک نگاشته شد

The Bukharan Jews are Mizrahi Jews who have adopted Sephardic traditions since Rabbi Yosef Maimon from Morocco settled in Bukhara and became a spiritual leader. It was during this time that he introduced many Sephardic Jewish traditions to the community. Bukharan Jews have taken their traditions and culture with them to other places around the world, and today, most of them reside outside of Uzbekistan and Central Asia, with the majority of them being in Israel and the United States.

The Persian language (Farsi) is an ancient language which has had a huge amount of impact on other languages and cultures, mainly the Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia. Classified as one of the Western Iranian languages, Persian holds official status is Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, which it is also the native language of many minority Persian communities in other countries. Persian has strongly influenced many different languages, including numerous Turkic languages, as well as well as Armenian, Georgian, and many languages in the Indian subcontinent. Persian has a long history of literature and it was notable for being the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing. The Persian language has also influenced the Arabic language, although the impact of Arabic on Persian has been higher.