Library, alphabet and dictionary of the Mountain Jewish language — all on one page. Read books, explore the writing system, search for words.
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Choose the main writing system. All four variants are shown at the bottom of each card.
The Mountain Jewish language has gone through several writing systems — from Hebrew letters to a modern unified alphabet.
Juhuri has preserved pharyngeal and uvular consonants lost in many Iranian languages. The letters convey specific guttural sounds shared with Semitic languages.
The language absorbed vocabulary from four language groups: Iranian (Farsi), Semitic (Hebrew, Aramaic), Turkic (Azerbaijani) and Caucasian. In Juhuri, postpositions are used instead of prepositions, as in medieval Persian.
About 100,000 people speak Juhuri in Israel, Azerbaijan (Krasnaya Sloboda), Dagestan (Derbent), Russia and the USA. The language is the foundation of the literary tradition of the Mountain Jews of the Caucasus.
