Judeo-Tat

Facts

  • Language: Judeo-Tat
  • Alternate names: Hebrew Tat, Jewish Tat, Juhuri, çuhuri, жугьури, ז'אוּהאוּראִ, ג'והורי, горско-еврейский, джуури, джухури, Dağ yəhudiləri dili, cuuri, cuhuri, Judeo-Tatic, Dzhuhuric, Juwri
  • Language code: jdt
  • Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Southwestern Iranian, Middle-Modern Persian, Modern Southwestern Iranian, Farsic-Caucasian Tat, Caucasian Tat
  • Number of speakers: ~25,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Cyrillic script, primary usage. Hebrew script. Latin script, used in Azerbaijan.

More information:

    Tat is not an ethnic name. It is a Turkic term for nomads. Ethnonym: Bik, known as Mountain Jews. Ethnic autonym: Juwri or Juhuri. Tradition says they lived in the Caucasus since 722 A.D. Different from Takestani (See: [[Takestani]]) of Iran. Jewish.

    Judeo-Tat is spoken in Russia, Azerbaijan, Israel, Caucasus;Europe;Near East;East Asia.