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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > Tajikistan > Arabic, Tajiki Spoken

Arabic, Tajiki Spoken

A language of Tajikistan

ISO 639-3: abh

Population  1,000 in Tajikistan. Population total all countries: 6,000.
Region  Khatlon Province, Vakhsh Valley villages; Kuliab and Leninabad cities. Mainly small villages. Also in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan.
Language map  Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Alternate names   Arabic, Bukhara Arabic, Buxara Arabic, Central Asian, Jugari, Tajiji Arabic
Classification  Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara] (Saudi Arabia).
Language use  Only a few now speak Arabic. Shifting to Tajiki [tgk]. No diglossia with Modern Standard Arabic. Also use Tajiki [tgk] as L2.
Writing system  Arabic script.
Comments  Endogamous, do not mix with speakers of other languages. Agriculturalists; animal husbandry: cattle. Muslim (Hanafi Sunni).

Also spoken in:

Afghanistan

Language name   Arabic, Tajiki Spoken
Population  5,000 in Afghanistan (Farhadi 1967), decreasing.
Region  Takhar Province, villages west of Daulatabad (Khushalabad), near Balkh (Yakhdan), Aq Chah (Sultan Aregh), Shibarghan (Hassanabad), and south of Talukan; 4 northern provinces. Some in Uzbekistan.
Language map  Afghanistan
Dialects  Balkh Arabic.
Language use  Also use Tajiki.
Comments  A form of Persianized Arabic. Muslim.