Judeo-Persian
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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]
Language
| Judeo-Persian | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Israel Iran Afghanistan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Azerbaijan Russia China |
Native speakers | 60,000 in Israel (2018)[1] |
| Hebrew | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | jpr |
| ISO 639-3 | jpr |
| Glottolog | jude1257 |
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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]