Judeo-Persian
Judeo-Persian
Dzhidi
Judeo-Persian Nativeto Native speakers Israel, Iran 60,000 in Israel (1995) [1]
Language family Indo-European Indo-Iranian Iranian Western Southwestern Persian Writing system Hebrew Dzhidi
Language codes ISO 639-2 ISO 639-3 jpr jpr
Judo-Persian, or Jidi (/didi/; also spelled Dzhidi or Djudi), refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by the Jews living in Iran and Judo-Persian texts (written in Hebrew alphabet). As a collective term, Dzhidi refers to a number of Judo-Iranian languages spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire.[citation needed] On a more limited scale, Dzhidi refers to the Judo-Persian dialect spoken by the Jewish communities of the area around Tehran and Mashhad.
Persian words in Hebrew and Aramaic
The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of the Israelites is found in the Bible. The post-exilic portions, Hebrew as well as Aramaic, contain besides many Persian proper names and titles, a number of nouns (as "dat" = "law"; "genez" = "treasure"; "pardes" = "park") which came into permanent use at the time of the Achaemenid Empire. More than five hundred years after the end of that dynasty the Jews of the Babylonian diaspora again came under the dominion of the Persians; and among such Jews the Persian language held a position similar to that held by the Greek language among the Jews of the West. Persian became to a great extent the language of everyday life among the Jews of Babylonia; and a hundred years after the conquest of that country by the Sassanids an amora of Pumbedita, Rab Joseph (d. 323), declared that the Babylonian Jews had no right to speak Aramaic, and should instead use either Hebrew or Persian. Aramaic, however, remained the language of the Jews in Israel as well as of those in Babylonia, although in the latter country a large number of Persian words found their way into the language of daily intercourse and into that of the schools, a fact which is attested by the numerous Persian derivatives in the Babylonian Talmud. But in the Aramaic Targum there are very few Persian words, because after the middle of the third century the Targumim on the Pentateuch and the Prophets were accepted as authoritative and received a fixed textual form in the Babylonian schools. In this way they were protected from the introduction of Persian elements.
Judeo-Persian
Literature
There is an extensive Judo-Persian poetic religious literature, closely modelled on classical Persian poetry. The most famous poet was Meulana Shahin Shirazi (14th century C.E.), who composed epic paraphrases of parts of the Bible, such as the Musa-nama (history of Moses); later poets composed lyric poetry of a Sufi cast. Much of this literature was collected around the beginning of the twentieth century by a Persian rabbi who had moved to Israel.
References
Judo-Persian [2] (from the 1906 Public Domain Jewish Encyclopedia) Vera Basch Moreen (tr. and ed.), In Queen Esther's Garden: An Anthology of Judeo-Persian Literature (Yale Judaica): Yale 2000, ISBN 978-0-300-07905-0
[1] Dzhidi reference (http:/ / www. ethnologue. com/ language/ jpr) at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) [2] http:/ / www. jewishencyclopedia. com/ view. jsp?artid=589& letter=J& search=persian
External links
Jewish dialect of Isfahan (http://www.iranica.com/newsite/index.isc?Article=http://www.iranica.com/ newsite/articles/unicode/v14f1/v14f1011.html) Judo-Persian literature (from Jewish Encyclopedia) (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view. jsp?artid=590&letter=J) Article from Jewish Languages site (http://www.jewish-languages.org/judeo-persian.html)
Article Sources and Contributors
Article Sources and Contributors
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