Judeo-Persian

Judeo-Persian
Native toIsrael
Iran
Afghanistan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Azerbaijan
Russia
Dagestan
Native speakers
60,000 in Israel (2018)[1]
Hebrew
Language codes
ISO 639-2jpr
ISO 639-3jpr
Glottologjude1257
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 the Jews living in Iran and Judeo-Persian texts (written in 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 the Mountain and Bukharan Jewish communities.[2]

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.[2]

  1. ^ Judeo-Persian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b "JUDEO-PERSIAN COMMUNITIES viii. JUDEO-PERSIAN – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-01-29.