Dzhidi

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Dzhidi is an alternative name for Judeo-Persian, the group of Persian dialects historically spoken and written by Jewish communities using the Hebrew script.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish language
Judeo-Persian dialect
language variety
alternativeName Judeo-Persian NERFINISHED
category Jewish languages written in Hebrew script
Judeo-Iranian languages
closelyRelatedTo Dari NERFINISHED
Persian
Tajik NERFINISHED
derivedFrom New Persian NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Bukharan Jews NERFINISHED
Iranian Jews NERFINISHED
hasCharacteristic Persian base with Hebrew and Aramaic loanwords
use of Hebrew script for a Persian dialect
hasLinguisticFeature Hebrew and Aramaic lexical influence
Persian grammar with Jewish communal vocabulary
historicallySpokenBy Jewish communities
historicallySpokenIn Afghanistan NERFINISHED
Bukharan Jewish communities NERFINISHED
Central Asia NERFINISHED
Iran NERFINISHED
ISOStatus not assigned a separate ISO 639-3 code (treated under Persian/Judeo-Persian varieties)
languageFamily Indo-Iranian languages
Iranian languages NERFINISHED
scriptType abjad
subfamily Southwestern Iranian languages NERFINISHED
Western Iranian languages
timePeriod early modern period
medieval period
usedByReligion Judaism NERFINISHED
usedFor biblical translations
commentaries
community documents
poetry
religious texts
writingSystem Hebrew script

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