Uzbeki Arabic

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Uzbeki Arabic
Native to Uzbekistan
Region Bukhara province
Native speakers 700  (date missing)
Language family
Language codes
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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