Tajiki Arabic

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Tajiki Arabic
Spoken in:	Afghanistan, Tajikistan
Total speakers:	6,000
Language family:	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Tajiki Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`—`
ISO 639-3:	`abh`
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Tajiki Arabic (also known as Jugari, Bukhara Arabic, Buxara Arabic, Tajiji Arabic, Balkh Arabic) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by a few thousand people in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Language use is declining. There is no diglossia with Standard Arabic. It is a variety of Central Asian Arabic. ^[1]

Notes

^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

References

Ethnologue entry for Tajiki Arabic

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