Bukhori (Persian: بخاری buxārī Hebrew script: בוכארי buxori) also known as Bukhari and Bukharian is a dialect of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia by Bukharian Jews.Bukhori is based on a substrate of classical Persian with a large number of Hebrew loanwords as well as smaller numbers of loanwords from other surrounding languages including Uzbek and Russian.
ISO 639-3 code
bhh
family
Indo-Iranian languages, Western Iranian languages, Iranian languages
spoken in
Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Israel, United States
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