Central Asian Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken in Afghanistan Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and currently facing extinction. It was once spoken among Central Asia’s numerous settled and nomadic Arab communities which inhabited areas in Samarqand Bukhara Qashqadarya Surkhandarya (present-day Uzbekistan) and Khatlon (present-day Tajikistan) as well as Afghanistan.
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Arabic language, Semitic languages, Central Semitic languages, Arabic languages
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