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  2. Judeo-Tat - Wikipedia

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    Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (Cuhuri, Жугьури, ז׳אוּהאוּראִ) is a Judeo-Persian dialect and the traditional language spoken by the Mountain Jews in the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and today in Israel. [1]

  3. Mountain Jews - Wikipedia

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    Mountain Jews speak Judeo-Tat, also called Juhuri, a form of Persian; it belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages. Judeo-Tat has Semitic (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) elements on all linguistic levels. [ 53 ]

  4. Tat alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Mountain Jewish newspaper The Toiler (Judeo-Tat: Захметкеш) in Hebrew alphabet. The first records of Judeo-Tat writing date back to the late 1870s and early 1880s, when Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhaki compiled the first Tat book, “Thesaurus of Judeo-Tat (Juhuri) language of the Mountain Jews of the Caucasus.”

  5. Persian phonology - Wikipedia

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    The pronunciation of و in Classical Persian shifted to in Iranian Persian and Tajik, but is retained in Dari. In modern Persian [w] may be lost if preceded by a consonant and followed by a vowel in one whole syllable, e.g. خواب /xwɒb/ ~ [xɒb] 'sleep', as Persian has no syllable-initial consonant clusters ( see below ).

  6. Italian Jews - Wikipedia

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    In musical tradition and in pronunciation, Italian Ashkenazim differ considerably from the Ashkenazim of other countries, and show some assimilation to the other two communities. Exceptional are the north-eastern communities such as that of Gorizia, which date from Austro-Hungarian times and are much closer to the German and Austrian traditions.

  7. Dagestani Jews look to rebuild after extremist attacks in the ...

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    Juhuri, which has a rich vocabulary with Hebrew and Aramaic words, is an endangered language — spoken or understood by fewer than 200,000 people worldwide, including 30,000 in the United States ...

  8. Shha with descender - Wikipedia

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    Shha with descender; Usage; Writing system: Cyrillic: Type: Alphabetic: Sound values [This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.

  9. Mountain Jews in Israel - Wikipedia

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    Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, thousands of Mountain Jews moved to Israel. [6] During the First Chechen War, some left due to the violence.Despite the usual close relations between Jews and Chechens, many were kidnapped by Chechen gangs who ransomed their freedom to "the international Jewish community."