Central Asian Arabic | |
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Native to | Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan |
Native speakers | (ca. 2,000, not counting Khorasani cited 1997–2003)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:abh – Tajiki Arabicauz – Uzbeki Arabic |
Glottolog | afgh1238 |
![]() Enclaves in Afghanistan, Iran and Uzbekistan where Central Asian Arabic is still spoken. In brackets, after the name of each region, is the number of villages with Arabic-speaking inhabitants. |
Central Asian Arabic (العربية الآسيوية الوسطى) is a severely endangered variety of Arabic historically spoken widely across Central Asia including Khorasan, but now dying out. Many are now switching to Persian or Tajik.
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