Tajiki Arabic

Tajiki Arabic
Spoken in Afghanistan, Tajikistan
Native speakers 6,000  (date missing)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 abh

Tajiki Arabic (also known as Jugari, Bukhara Arabic, Buxara Arabic, Tajiji Arabic, Balkh Arabic) is a variety of Arabic 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]

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

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