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Where is Bukharic spoken?

Bukharic is an Indo-European language, spoken in Israel and Uzbekistan. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Bukharic is spoken

Bukharic is spoken in 2 countries: Israel and Uzbekistan.

Country
Israel
Uzbekistan

Bukharic has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Bukharic?

Wikidata gives about 60,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Bukharic sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Bukharic as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Indo-Iranian
  4. Iranian-Nuristani
  5. Iranian
  6. Southwestern Iranian
  7. Middle-Modern Persian
  8. Modern Southwestern Iranian
  9. Farsic-Caucasian Tat
  10. Farsic
  11. Eastern Farsic
  12. Tajikic
  13. Bukharic

Related languages

Other languages in the Tajikic group:

  • Tajik (14 million speakers)

More about Bukharic

Codes: ISO 639-3 bhh, Glottolog bukh1238. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about Bukharic

Where is Bukharic spoken?

Bukharic is spoken in Israel and Uzbekistan. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Bukharic?

Wikidata gives about 60,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Bukharic in?

Glottolog places Bukharic in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian-Nuristani, Iranian, Southwestern Iranian, Middle-Modern Persian, Modern Southwestern Iranian, Farsic-Caucasian Tat, Farsic, Eastern Farsic and Tajikic.

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