Uzbeki Arabic

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Uzbeki Arabic
Spoken in: Uzbekistan 
Region: Bukhara province
Total speakers: 700
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Semitic
  West Semitic
   Central Semitic
    South Central Semitic
     Arabic
      Uzbeki Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: auz

Uzbeki Arabic (also known as Jugari, Kashkadarya Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by a few hundred people in the Bukhara province of Uzbekistan. Few members of the ethnic group now speak Arabic. There is no diglossia with Standard Arabic. It is a variety of Central Asian Arabic. [1]

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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