Judeo-Persian

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Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by Jews and Judeo-Persian texts which is written in the Hebrew alphabet. As a collective term, Judeo-Persian refers to a number of Judeo-Iranian languages spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire, including Iranian Jews, Mountain Jews, Afghan Jews, and Bukharan Jews. The speakers refer to their language as Fārsi and some reporting even Pārsi. Some non-Jews refer to it as "dzhidi" (also written as "zidi", "judi" or "jidi"), which means "Jewish" in a derogatory sense. Over time, most speakers of Judeo-Persian also evolved to use an Arabic, Latin or Cyrillic alphabet in the 19th-20th centuries.

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