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 fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...
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 ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Region, Isfahan Province, Iran. It is lo ...
.
[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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