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Also known as Juhuri, Judaeo-Tat, Jewish Tat, Dzhuhuric, Hebrew Tat, Judeo-Tatic, Judaeo-Tatic, Juwri

Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (, , ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect and the traditional language spoken by the Mountain Jews in the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and today in Israel. It belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages, albeit with heavy influence from Hebrew. The words Juhuri and Juhuro translate as "Jewish" and "Jews".

Key facts

Language.name
Judeo-Tat
Language.altname
Juhuri
Language.ethnicity
Mountain Jews
Language.states
Azerbaijan, Russia – North Caucasian Federal District, spoken by immigrant communities in Israel, United States (New York City)
Language.date
2010–2018
Language.ref
e26
Language.familycolor
Indo-European
Language.fam2
Indo-Iranian
Language.fam3
Iranian
Language.fam4
Western Iranian
Language.fam5
Southwestern Iranian
Language.fam6
Persian
Language.fam7
Tat
Language.script
Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew
Language.iso3
jdt
Language.glotto
jude1256
Language.glottorefname
Judeo-Tat
Language.map2
Lang Status 60-DE.svg

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Distribution
  • Dialects
  • Phonology
  • Alphabet
  • Influences and etymology
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (, , ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect and the traditional language spoken by the Mountain Jews in the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and today in Israel. It belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages, albeit with heavy influence from Hebrew. The words Juhuri and Juhuro translate as "Jewish" and "Jews".

The Iranic Tat language is spoken by the Muslim Tats of Azerbaijan, a group to which the Mountain Jews were mistakenly considered to belong during the era of Soviet historiography though the languages probably originated in the same region of the Persian Empire.

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