Bukhara dialect of the Arabic language is one of the Central Asian varieties of the Arabic language .
| Bukhara dialect of the Arabic language | |
|---|---|
| Countries | Uzbekistan , Tajikistan |
| Regions |
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| Total number of speakers |  : 400 people (1938)  : 1 thousand people |
| Classification | |
| Category | Languages of Eurasia |
Afrasian macro family
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| Language Codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | - |
| ISO 639-2 | - |
| ISO 639-3 | abh |
In the Ethnologue reference book, the name Bukhara Arabic ( English Bukhara Arabic ) is applied to the “Tajik Arabic dialect” ( English Tajiki Arabic , ISO 639-3 : abh ). The number of speakers of the “Tajik dialect” is defined as 1 thousand people in Tajikistan and 5 thousand people in Afghanistan (1967), and villages in the Vakhsh valley and the cities of Kulyab and Khujand are named as their place of residence in Tajikistan [1] .
In 1938, about 400 Arabs spoke in the Bukhara dialect in the villages of Jovgari, Chagdari and Shahan-bek in the Gijduvan district and in the village of Arabkhon in the Vabkent district [2] . Most Arabs spoke two or three languages (native dialect and Uzbek or Tajik ) [3] . Bukhara Arabs lived detached from both local residents and those from the speakers of another Arabic dialect of Uzbekistan - Kashkadarya [4] . Bukhara and Kashkadarya dialects are incomprehensible. The first one was more influenced by the Tajik language, the second by the Uzbek language [5] [6] .
The phonology of the Bukhara dialect has generally remained conservative, an example of which is the preservation of rare pharyngeal and pharyngealized consonants. In the word order, on the contrary, due to the influence of local Turkic languages , significant changes have occurred [7] . Another example of the influence of surrounding languages on the language of Bukhara Arabs is the disappearance of the conditional particle in ( Arabic. إن ) and its replacement with the equivalent Tajik union agar / agal [8] .
Notes
- ↑ Arabic, Tajiki Spoken . Ethnologue. Date accessed August 20, 2015.
- ↑ Kees Versteegh. Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics . - Brill, 2008. - T. 4. - P. 613. - 767 p. - ISBN 9789004144767 .
- ↑ CHM Versteegh, Kees Versteegh. The Arabic Language . - Edinburgh University Press, 2001 .-- P. 215. - 277 p. - ISBN 9780748614363 .
- ↑ Proceedings of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences . - Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1941. - S. 135.
- ↑ A. Ilhamov. Ethnic Atlas of Uzbekistan . - Institute "Open Society", 2002. - S. 29. - 451 p.
- ↑ JS Olson, LB Pappas, NC Pappas. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires . - Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994. - P. 38. - 840 p. - ISBN 9780313274978 .
- ↑ Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans. The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics . - Routledge, 2015 .-- P. 530. - 776 p. - (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics). - ISBN 9781317743248 .
- ↑ R.N. Andreasyan, N.O. Hovhannisyan. Problems of modern Soviet arabistics. Proceedings of the IV All-Union Conference of Arabists . - Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, 1988. - S. 217.
Literature
- V. G. Akhvlediani. Bukhara Arabic dialect. Phonology and morphology . - Metzniereba, 1985.
- G. G. Chikovani. Bukhara dialect of the Arabic language. - Tbilisi. - 194 p. - ISBN 978-9941-9079-3-7 .
- Reem Khamis-Dakwar, Karen Froud. The Arabic of Bukhara // Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVI: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics . - John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014 .-- 304 p. - ISBN 9789027269683 .
- Otto Jastrow. Dialect differences in Uzbekistan Arabic and their historical implications .