Arabic, Uzbeki Spoken
A language of Uzbekistan
| Population | 700. |
| Region | Bukhara Province; Samarkand Province, middle and lower Zerafshan Valley; a few in Katta-Kurgan town. Mainly small villages. |
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Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, reference number 7 |
| Alternate names | Central Asian Arabic, Jugari, Kashkadarya Arabic, Uzbeki Arabic |
| Dialects | Similar to North Mesopotamian Spoken Arabic [ayp]. Sharp dialect differences between Bukhara and Kashkadarya regions. Bukhara is strongly influenced by Tajiki [tgk]; Kashkadarya by Uzbek [uzn] and other Turkic languages. May be a mixed language. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara] (Saudi Arabia). |
| Language use | Northern Uzbek [uzn] used to communicate and as literary language. Few ethnic group members now speak Arabic. No diglossia with Modern Standard Arabic. |
| Comments | Endogamous and do not mix with speakers of other languages. Agriculturalists; animal husbandry: cattle. Muslim (Hanafi Sunni). |
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