
Dzhidi, or Judæo-Persian, is the Jewish language spoken by the Jews living in Iran. As a collective term, Dzhidi refers to a number of Indo-Iranian languages languages or dialects spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire. On a more limited scale, spoken Dzhidi refers to the Judæo-Persian dialect spoken by the Jewish communities of the area around Tehran and Mashhad. The language is also known, especially in its literary form, as Latorayi, literally ''"not [the language] of the Torah"''. The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of the Israelites is found in the Bible. The post-Babylonian captivity portions, Hebrew language as well as Aramaic language, contain besides many Persian language 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 Achæmenidæ. 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, instead using either Hebrew or Persian. Aramaic, however, remained the language of the Jews in Palestine (region) 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, owing to the fact that 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. ==See also== * Judeo-Tat language * Judæo-Persian languages ==Reference== * [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=DZH Ethnologue's Dzhidi page] * [http://www.mazdapub.com/Comprehensive-History-Jews.htm Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran] Jewish languages Iranian languages Iranian peoples
is there an ethnic name for persian/iranian jews? i'm under the impression that they are part of the mizrahim. == Ethnonym for Persian Jews == Persian Jews are indeed Mizrachim. The notion of "included in" goes back to the tenuous notion of what Mizrahim are, of course. For further discussion, see Talk:Mizrahi Jew. There is no distinct collective ethnonym for these communities, since they long lived in relative isolation from one another, especially none analogous to the ethnonyms Ashkenazi or Sephardi. User:TShilo12 User talk:TShilo12 07:27, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
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Dzhidi, or Judæo-Persian, is the Jewish language spoken by the Jews living in Iran. As a collective term, Dzhidi refers to a number of Indo-Iranian languages languages or dialects spoken by Jewish communities throughout the formerly extensive Persian Empire. On a more limited scale, spoken Dzhidi refers to the Judæo-Persian dialect spoken by the Jewish communities of the area around Tehran and Mashhad. The language is also known, especially in its literary form, as Latorayi, literally ''"not [the language] of the Torah"''. The earliest evidence of the entrance of Persian words into the language of the Israelites is found in the Bible. The post-Babylonian captivity portions, Hebrew language as well as Aramaic language, contain besides many Persian language 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 Achæmenidæ. 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, instead using either Hebrew or Persian. Aramaic, however, remained the language of the Jews in Palestine (region) 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, owing to the fact that 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. ==See also== * Judeo-Tat language * Judæo-Persian languages ==Reference== * [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=DZH Ethnologue's Dzhidi page] * [http://www.mazdapub.com/Comprehensive-History-Jews.htm Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran] Jewish languages Iranian languages Iranian peoples
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is there an ethnic name for persian/iranian jews? i'm under the impression that they are part of the mizrahim. == Ethnonym for Persian Jews == Persian Jews are indeed Mizrachim. The notion of "included in" goes back to the tenuous notion of what Mizrahim are, of course. For further discussion, see Talk:Mizrahi Jew. There is no distinct collective ethnonym for these communities, since they long lived in relative isolation from one another, especially none analogous to the ethnonyms Ashkenazi or Sephardi. User:TShilo12 User talk:TShilo12 07:27, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
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