Judeo-Persian Texts from Bukhara
摘要
This paper presents sample texts from various stages of Persian as used by the Jewish population of Transoxiana, also known as Bukhara in modern history. The intention is to demonstrate continuity and change within Judeo-Persian of Bukhara, known as Judeo-Bukhari in its later stage, and its association with Persian and Tajik. The written samples include classical Judeo-Persian, i.e., formal Persian cast into the Hebrew script, from 17th and 19th centuries, the modified Hebrew script introduced in the 1920s, thereafter the Latin script of the 1930s and the Cyrillic script, also known as Judeo-Tajik. The rest of the texts sample the spoken language among the immigrant Bukhari community in New York City based on extensive fieldwork.