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Judeo-Persian

Judeo-Persian was an Indo-European language once spoken in Iran and Israel.

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Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by Jews and Judeo-Persian texts (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. Some non-Jews refer to it as "dzhidi" (also written as "zidi", "judi" or "jidi"), which means "Jewish" in a derogatory sense.

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