Judeo-Shirazi is a
dialect of Fars. It is spoken mostly by
Persian Jew
Persian Jews or Iranian Jews ( fa, یهودیان ایرانی, ''yahudiān-e-Irāni''; he, יהודים פרסים ''Yəhūdīm Parsīm'') are the descendants of Jews who were historically associated with the Persian Empire, whose successor s ...
s living in
Shiraz
Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the List of largest cities of Iran, fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars province, Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars (Sasanian province), Pars () and Persis. As o ...
and surrounding areas of the
Fars Province in
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
.
Vocabulary
The following list of words indicates a few isoglosses distinguishing Judeo-Shirazi from the dialect of
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, اصفهان, Esfahân ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...
.
[Borjian, H. (2014). What Is Judeo-Median—and How Does it Differ from Judeo-Persian? Journal of Jewish Languages, 2(2), 117 – 142-117 – 142. doi:10.1163/22134638-123400]
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References
Further reading
#Lazard, Gilbert. 1968. La Dialectologie du Judeo-Persan. ''Studies in Bibliography and Booklore'' 8. 77–98.
External links
Ancient Judeo-Persian Language Kept AliveJudeo-Shirazi at the Endangered Languages Project
Endangered Iranian languages
Judeo-Persian languages
Languages of Iran
Persian dialects and varieties
Iranian Jews
Culture in Shiraz
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