Arabic, Tajiki Spoken

ABH

threatened

Alternate Names: Arabic, Bukhara Arabic, Buxara Arabic, Central Asian, Jugari, Tajiji Arabic

Dialects: A member of macrolanguage Arabic ,.

Genealogy:

Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
Central
South
Arabic

Demographics: 1,000 in Tajikistan. Population total all countries: 6,000.

Language Use: Only a few speak Arabic. Shifting to Tajiki [tgk]. No diglossia with Modern Standard Arabic [arb]. Also use Tajiki [tgk].

Writing System: Arabic

Nation of Origin: Tajikistan

Other Comments: Endogamous, do not mix with speakers of other languages. Muslim (Hanafi Sunni).