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Juhuri Academy

World of Juhuri

Library, alphabet and dictionary of the Mountain Jewish language — all on one page. Read books, explore the writing system, search for words.

811Books
30Letters
4Writing systems
34 262Words
All (811) Academic Works (105) Children's Literature (32) Dictionaries (25) History (116) Memoirs (35) Poetry (227) Prose (232)
Found: 811 publications
Mirvori №3 [EN]
Prose
Mirvori №3 [EN]
2007 Russian
Goruyun Dunyany Dorit Ilome [EN]
Prose
Goruyun Dunyany Dorit Ilome [EN]
Антон Агарунов
2013 Juhuri
Nashi korni [EN]
History
Nashi korni [EN]
Ягутил Мишиев
2008 Russian
Mirvori №2
Prose
Mirvori №2
2007 Russian
Mehniho, gezelho, shejrho (2004, tom 2) [EN]
Poetry
Mehniho, gezelho, shejrho (2004, tom 2) [EN]
Simakh Sheyda
2004 Juhuri
Ez Nesiloymu [EN]
Poetry
Ez Nesiloymu [EN]
Ифрэим Доги
2014 Juhuri
Mirvori №1 [EN]
Prose
Mirvori №1 [EN]
2006 Russian
Sevdaly kozler, sbornik stikhov [EN]
Poetry
Sevdaly kozler, sbornik stikhov [EN]
Simakh Sheyda
2008 Juhuri
Yazyk gorskikh evreev. Kniga 1 [EN]
Dictionaries
Yazyk gorskikh evreev. Kniga 1 [EN]
Михаил Агарунов
2005 Juhuri
Mugbet ve gismet
Poetry
Mugbet ve gismet
Sergey Izgiyaev
1972 Juhuri
Sheiroy Azerbaydzhan e zuun Yakhudioy dogi [EN]
Poetry
Sheiroy Azerbaydzhan e zuun Yakhudioy dogi [EN]
Simakh Sheyda
2007 Juhuri
Bolshoy slovar yazyka dzhuuri
Dictionaries
Bolshoy slovar yazyka dzhuuri
Яков Агарунов, Михаил Агарунов
2010 Juhuri
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History of Juhuri writing

The Mountain Jewish language has gone through several writing systems — from Hebrew letters to a modern unified alphabet.

before 1929
Hebrew script
Hebrew letters with additional marks for sounds absent in Hebrew
1929
Latinization
Transition to a Latin alphabet similar to Azerbaijani
1938
Cyrillic
Two Cyrillic variants were introduced — in Dagestan and Azerbaijan
2020s
Unified alphabet
STMEGI unified alphabet project based on Latin script with additional symbols
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Phonetics

Juhuri has preserved pharyngeal and uvular consonants lost in many Iranian languages. The letters convey specific guttural sounds shared with Semitic languages.

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Features

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.

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Distribution

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.

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