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Also known as Dzhidi, Judæo-Persian

thumb|Seven Priests sounding horns at Wall of Jericho. From an illustrated manuscript of Emrani's Fath-nameh. Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by Jews and Judeo-Persian texts (written in the 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 Iranian Jews, Mountain Jews, Afghan Jews, and Bukharan Jews.

Key facts

Language.fam4
Western
Language.date
2018
Language.fam3
Iranian
Language.name
Judeo-Persian
Language.states
IsraelIranAfghanistanUzbekistanTajikistanAzerbaijanRussiaDagestan
Language.speakers
in Israel
Language.ref
e25
Language.familycolor
Indo-European
Language.fam2
Indo-Iranian
Language.fam5
Southwestern
Language.fam6
Persian
Language.script
Hebrew
Language.iso2
jpr
Language.iso3
jpr
Language.glotto
jude1257
Language.glottorefname
Judeo-Persian

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Encyclopedic overview

25 sections
Contents
  • Literature
  • Earliest Judeo-Persian writings
  • Biblical epics
  • [[Shahin Shirazi|Mowlānā Shāhin-i Shirāzi]]
  • Pentateuchal epic
  • ''Ardashir-nameh''
  • Emrani
  • '' Shoftim-nameh''
  • ''Daniel-nameh''
  • Mishnah and midrash
  • ''Ganj-nameh''
  • Biblical commentaries
  • Shimon Hakham: Commentary on Exodus 3-4
  • Historical texts
  • [[Bābāi b. Lutf]]: ''Kitab-i Anusi'' (The Book of a Forced Convert)
  • [[Bābāi b. Farhād]]: ''Kitāb-i Sar guzasht-i Kāshān'' (The Book of Events in Kashan)
  • Liturgical poems
  • Printing
  • Characteristics
  • Contemporary dialects
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|Seven Priests sounding horns at Wall of Jericho. From an illustrated manuscript of Emrani's Fath-nameh. Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by Jews and Judeo-Persian texts (written in the 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 Iranian Jews, Mountain Jews, Afghan Jews, and Bukharan Jews.

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judeo-Persian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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