A Disappearing Language from NYU News & Documentary on Vimeo.
Bukhori is classic Persian mixed with a lot of Hebrew, and some Uzbek, Arabic and Russian. Hebrew alphabet is normally used to write it. Speakers now live mostly in the US and Israel with a few hundred still living in Tajikestan. The language is still mutually intelligible with Tajik Persian. A young Bukhari Jew, Imanuel Rybakov, is trying to keep this variety of the Persian language alive with his Bukhori language school in the US. Israel Radio (Kol Yisrael) broadcasts in Bukhori fifteen minutes a day.
