Can Iranians & Afghans Understand Bukharian?

The Persian language has many different dialects. The Bukhori dialect (бухорӣ / בוכארי), which is also known as Bukharian, is a Jewish dialect of the Tajik variety spoken by Bukharian Jews. Can Persian speakers from Iran and Afghanistan understand it? In this episode, Bobby is representing Bukhori. Naghmeh and Dina are the Iranian Persian speakers, with Dina having been born and raised in Kuwait, and Azarakhsh is the Persian speaker from Afghanistan.
گویش بخاری (یا بخارایی) گویشی از زبان فارسی است که در میان یهودیان آسیای میانه کاربرد دارد. آیا مردم ایران و افغانستان این گویش را متوجه میشوند؟
Bukharan Jews, or Bukharian, is a term referring to the Persian-speaking ethno-religious Jewish group of Central Asia. The name "Bukharan" was coined by foreigners in reference to the former Central Asian Emirate of Bukhara, and its predecessor, the Khanate of Bukhara. They natively called themselves "Isro'il" (Israelites).
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Although the Bukhori dialect contains many Hebrew loanwords, along with some Uzbek and Russian, the base of it comes from Classical Persian, making it sound very poetic. Historically, Bukhori was written using the Hebrew script but in the 20th century the Latin script was adopted and later on due to the influence of the Soviet Union, the Cyrillic script, with a spelling system originating from Talmudic orthography. In recent times, many Bukharian Jews in the West have began using a modified Latin script similar to the one developed by Bukharian Jewish linguist and writer, Yakub Kalontarov, in the process of reviving Bukhori.
بخارایی دارای شمار وام ‌واژه‌های عبری، ازبکی و روسی است. اگر چه تاریخ کهنی دارد ولی هنوز هم برای فارسی ‌زبانان و یهودیان ایرانی دریافتنی است. از لحاظ تاریخی، بخارایی با استفاده از خط عبری نوشته میشد، ولی در صده گذشته، در پی حضور شوروی، این زبان با خط لاتین و سپس سیریلیک نگاشته شد
The Bukharan Jews are Mizrahi Jews who have adopted Sephardic traditions since Rabbi Yosef Maimon from Morocco settled in Bukhara and became a spiritual leader. It was during this time that he introduced many Sephardic Jewish traditions to the community. Bukharan Jews have taken their traditions and culture with them to other places around the world, and today, most of them reside outside of Uzbekistan and Central Asia, with the majority of them being in Israel and the United States.
The Persian language (Farsi) is an ancient language which has had a huge amount of impact on other languages and cultures, mainly the Middle East, as well as Central and South Asia. Classified as one of the Western Iranian languages, Persian holds official status is Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, which it is also the native language of many minority Persian communities in other countries. Persian has strongly influenced many different languages, including numerous Turkic languages, as well as well as Armenian, Georgian, and many languages in the Indian subcontinent. Persian has a long history of literature and it was notable for being the first language in the Muslim world to break through Arabic's monopoly on writing. The Persian language has also influenced the Arabic language, although the impact of Arabic on Persian has been higher.

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[@doncorleone3082]

Fantastic. I had heard Bukhari Jews also celebrate many Persian traditions like Nowruz

[@tannazmehrdadi8774]

بسیار زیبا بود. خیلی لذت بردم دستتون درد نکنه. موفق باشید 💖

[@santosh-un2bj]

Sir I can understand some words

[@santosh-un2bj]

It is nice you have placed subtitles

[@theark4833]

@@doncorleone3082 all iranic origin pepole celebrate newruz it's part of iranic tridition

[@iphone2069]

Please invite a guest from Tajikistan next time, it will be very interesting. All Persians Salom from Tajikistan🇹🇯🇹🇯🇹🇯🇹🇯🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷

[@shayanghafoori2611]

Салом аз ирон бародар ❤️

[@rajab4187]

Languages binds more than religion It's proven time and time again

[@elimalinsky7069]

Too easy. Tajik, Dari and Farsi speakers can understand each other perfectly well. Bringing a Balochi, Gilaki or Mazandarani speaker will be more interesting. Maybe also Pashto or Pamiri, but those languages are more distant to Persian variants.

[@maayanhaza6178]

This video made me so happy as an Iranian Jew!! Thank you to all of you!! I love and adore the Persian language and Iranian culture 💕💕 Bukhori is so fascinating! It's like classical Persian with a mix of Hebrew, Russian and Uzbek. It was so cool to see way your guests could figure out everything! There is actually 1 Bukharian Jew left in Afghanistan! I would love to visit Bukhara and Samarkand, and also Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan one day. Thankfully, I am allowed to visit all, except Iran unfortunately, since I'm not allowed now with my passport. Iran is always in my heart and I have learned basic Persian. I really look forward to the day I can visit the beautiful country my grandparents have many amazing memories from! Thank you all!! This was so pleasant and enjoyable!💝🤗

[@67alphabeastakamrstealyour41]

Iranians are Arab, so you're basically Arab jew.

[@worldly8888]

@@67alphabeastakamrstealyour41 You're a virgin.

[@jhhvhvuvjvuv6074]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKqQgmOdicl6rKM ..........

[@ryansheridan7592]

You're ethically the same as Iranians

[@narenjakable]

your name reminds me the Ofra Haza the Israeli singer who represented Israeil in Eurovision long ago

[@tianshansky]

This is great. I am an American Jew of Ashkenazi descent who only grew up speaking English. Interestingly, I went to high school in Great Neck, NY in the 80s with many Jews from Iran, but never had any inkling then that I would later learn Persian. What happened is that I studied Russian at university during perestroika and glasnost and graduated just as the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. I wound up working twice in Kyrgyzstan in the 90s where my Russian became very good, and because I had started down the Central Asia path, I decided to start learning the local languages of the region. I studied Uzbek in grad school and some Turkish (all super rusty) and then worked in Tajikistan. In Tajikistan, I studied Iranian Persian (Farsi) and used it in the streets of Dushanbe. Farsi, Dari (Afghanistan) and Tajik speakers can all quite easily understand each other. I am now at about an intermediate speaking level of Persian. I visited the synagogue in Dushanbe during a service. I can read Hebrew alphabet, but can't speak, though I do know the prayers. I cam with one guy from Israel who is completely not religious, but because he knew Hebrew excellently, he was able to help the locals find the weekly reading portion (Haftarah) in the Torah. I have also visited the synagogue in Bukhara. There is a school affiliated with it and the students are primarily local Muslims because apparently the quality of education is very good. I am currently waiting out the pandemic at home in New York. If you come to my area of Manhattan, you will find that most of the barbers are Bukharan Jews (Bukharians). I am hoping to move to Uzbekistan later this year for work on some new projects, including a new university, and I plan to keep working on my Persian and then use my time in Uzbekistan to improve my Uzbek and possibly Turkish as well. I love following Bahador Alast's videos and the community! Best Wishes to all!

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

Yeah, for some reason Bukharians, along with Gorski/Kavkaz Jews, have been taking over the barber business in New York. Also a lot of shoe and leather repair businesses and keymaking. They are following the Greeks. One minor pedantic correction. The "haftara" is the reading from the Book of Prophets that immediately follows the weekly "parsha" or "sedrah, ("parsha" and "sedrah" is basically the same thing), which refers to the weekly portion of the Pentateuch that is chanted from the Torah scroll, which is handwritten by a scribe and has no vowelization. The haftara is chanted from the printed book, not the Torah scroll and has vowelization. It's all expansively included in "Torah," but when we say "weekly Torah portion" it is understood to mean the parsha from the Pentateuch (then you have the haftara after it).

[@jacobuzilov]

Damn that is a good story

[@user-bz8gg1io7j]

I have a question about Dari. Is this word related with the name of King Darious?? As I know, Dari is Persian spoken in Afghanistan.

[@hosseinshahni]

@@user-bz8gg1io7j Dari is short for ”Darbari" which means of the/related to ”Darbar" or "Court/Palace". It comes from the fact that Persian was the lingua franca of the government in that part of the world for millennia. Although it was generally called "Farsi" by its native speakers, it was officially referred to as "Dari" starting from 1964 (in my opinion) to create an artificial differentiation between Iranian an Afghan speakers (just like what happened in Tajikistan at the hands of the Soviets, they named the language Tajiki) for political considerations.

[@user-bz8gg1io7j]

@@hosseinshahni Ok. Thanks for the explanation. So it is not related with the name of king Darious!

[@levaltshuler1315]

One of the things I learned about Persians, which I respect a lot, is that they value their language and culture so much. Everything else is secondary. This video proves exactly that! Here you have a Jewish guy from Uzbekistan, a Sunni Muslim from Afghanistan, Bahador who is atheist from Iran, and I presume the two Iranian ladies are from a Shi'a Muslim background. Yet, none of them care about any of that. They share the same language and culture and that's what bonds them.

[@hussaindaud1260]

Yes and the same is true for Indians as well. You will find similar sentiments among Punjabi and Hindi speakers for example who are Muslims, Hindus, Christian, and Sikh. Even Malayalam and Tamil

[@joesmith4894]

@@hussaindaud1260 But don't a lot of Indian Muslims want to segregate and be separate?

[@joesmith4894]

@@hussaindaud1260 I'm not trying to say anything negative, just what I've heard.

[@hussaindaud1260]

@@joesmith4894 Yeah that is true as well. It's a complex situation. It really depends on the person/family too. Indian Muslims (mostly) and Christians and increasingly the Sikhs with their subsequent Abrahamisation see themselves as seperate and superior to their Dharmic brethren.

[@SantomPh]

@@joesmith4894 they don't. The one chance they had was during Partition, and even that the majority of Muslims stayed in India anyway. The southern Indians especially saw no good reason to move north to an alien climate and culture. India is designed in such a way that gaining prominence in a state is as good as independence, so Muslims have quite a presence in India despite being a relatively small minority (a minority 100 million people large, mind you). The only Muslims who really want out of India are those in Kashmir, which joined India in very difficult circumstances that haven't been solved to this day. As for "segregation" you have to understand that Hindu and Muslim cultures are very different and co-existence is very difficult. In a place like India where literal millions of each can be side by side in one place, there has to be separation lest there be violence and misunderstandings (and boy have there been). They can get along in daily life of course like in education, employment, services, crime and sports etc but to actually live side by side in a politically charged India where the ruling coalition is usually pro-Hindu and anti-Muslim (or vice versa in certain places) is nearly impossible. So like any minority (think how New York was divided in the 1900s) they would stick to their own, just to be able to sleep at night. We haven't even touched on the other kind of discrimination in India, that of gender, economic class and caste, which adds an even more divisive layer to the topic. the one thing people can generally agree on in India (apart from cricket) is language. There have been several Indian languages featured on this channel, which is one of the rare places outside of a news studio or a non-Indian based panel show where one might find people from different faiths casually discussing something positive and agreeable.

[@betoche4742]

As a Persian living in Forest Hills, NY I LOVEDD this video. I went to high school and college with Bukharians and I’d always speak to them in Farsi

[@fo6748]

Do the Bukharians there consider themselves to be part of the Persian community? I hear on Long Island there are many Persian Jews?

[@benjaminr6153]

@Kourosh587 I love going to Rego Park for Bukharian food. Do you think they’ll celebrate Nowruz there? It is a fairly religious Jewish neighbourhood and it is almost Passover so I’m not sure if Nowruz will be a thing there

[@benjaminr6153]

@@fo6748 Bukharians consider themselves a separate community. They wouldn’t identify first as “Persian.” In Great Neck, Long Island there is a very large Jewish community who came from Iran after 1979 - they and their children and grandchildren do consider themselves “Persians”

[@benjaminr6153]

Are there any authentic Iranian restaurants in Queens or is Bukharian food like “Taste of Samarkand” the closest I can get?

[@aleksandalexander172]

@Kourosh587 Yes!!! I go to Salute on 108th St

[@asalaarmenia9707]

Happy nowruz to Iranians 🇦🇲❤️🇮🇷 from Armenia

[@burzumimmortal5667]

Thanks Bro .. that's So Sweet ... We have Many Armenians In iran ... They are Great people . I'm pretty sure Armenians of Hayastan are Same ! Слава Хаястан 🇮🇷❤️♥️💗🇦🇲

[@asalaarmenia9707]

@@burzumimmortal5667 of course 🇦🇲❤️🇮🇷 we love Parsakstan And Farsi

[@user-ud7wx8no8x]

Does Armenia have Nowruz?

[@asalaarmenia9707]

@@user-ud7wx8no8x so so Bro

[@agostocobain2729]

Thanks bro Iran has your back! We love you our ancient cousins

[@sardortoshmatov50]

Wow as an Uzbekistani Tajik, I am so glad to find out this. Actually, I'd love to participate in these kind of meetings.

[@mohammadpanjshiri694]

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[@Leo-qz2zd]

Are you staying in Uzbekistan?

[@sardortoshmatov50]

@@Leo-qz2zd Asad?

[@sardortoshmatov50]

@Dardic Kashmir well, ethnic Tajiks make up to 35% of whole Uzbekistan population, in fact. But u can't find it online🙄

[@mohammadpanjshiri694]

@Dardic Kashmir most Samarkand and Bukhara are tajiks it mean Tajiks mother tongue is Farsi Dari

[@umedasatulloev9997]

Salom az Bukhoroi Sharif ba tamome forse zabonhoi dunyo ☝️👍 Zinda boshed hamzabonon. Bo shumo intizorem , biyoyed Bukhoro🤗Man shumoro mekhmon mekunam.

[@JavidShah246]

Rahmat🙏🏻 zindabad dustan e mehman navaz e shahre buxara🌹

[@theark4833]

Droud az iran be bukhara va samargand sarzamin afraseyab.♥️❤️

[@IranAzadLoading]

Salam az Alman be dustane Azizane Bokhoro va Samarqand. Hamishe Salamat va Zende bashin.

[@tajiksamarkandian2473]

Salam aka Umed mohon samarqandiho va bukhorogiho hamesha ba zaboni forsi gap zanem bisyortar yod girem va ba bachomon yod dihem ki in zabon gum nashavad.

[@IranAzadLoading]

@@tajiksamarkandian2473 khodaro shokr baradare aziz. Zabane shoma va Lahjeye shoma shirin va ghashangeh. Besyar az lahjeyetun khoshham miyad. Durood va salomat be shoma.

[@Jack97970]

As a Kurdish guy and Arabic speaker I always see that Persian is so interesting greetings to my Persian cousins❤

[@VovaPavlov1]

Kurds are a Persian tribe

[@Jack97970]

Dari,farsi and tajik are Persians But kurds,pashtos and blauches are defferent people They are all in the same language family group (iranian languages) It's like you're saying dutchs and germans are the same!! Educate yourself...

[@VovaPavlov1]

@@Jack97970 It is a western propaganda, Pashtuns,Balochs,Kurds,Tajiks are all Persian/Parsi aka Aryan people, it is like saying Kurmanjis and Soranis not Kurds because they speak different dialects, you are either ignorant or a turk trying to spread disunity among Aryans/Persians

[@Hermesborugerdian]

We love Kurds, Persian Jew here

[@simkoshkak6732]

@@VovaPavlov1 How Stupid it’s saying Like English are german Or Ukrainian are Russians😹 Educate yourself man

[@SN-ly8ih]

The accent of Baukharae people are same like Tajiks of north Afghanistan specially Takhar and Badakhshan of Present Afghanistan Thanks for the great video love you all my persian speakers

[@tajiksamarkandian2473]

Bale Baradar Panjsher Kapisa ham lahjash misli Samarqandi mebashad 😅. We say “parsal”, not sali guzashta, and we say “ha” yes, not “ho” or “bale”. Lahjai Balkh ham monandi Samarqandu Bukhara.

[@Analysis_Paralysis]

Afghans who've grown up in the West sometimes also speak like this because they can't pronounce the words like their parents... 😅 It's so funny, at first I thought he's an Afghan who's grown up abroad!

[@davlatsaid7641]

Тоҷикҳо ҳам "ҳа" мегуянд ҳам "ҳо" шимол ҷануб ва ҳам "соли гузашта"мегуянд ҳам "порсол"ҳамаи ин калимаҳо тоҷики ҳастанд на немиси ва барои ҳар як фарди тоҷик фаҳмо аст

[@user-tq8xh5sr1k]

Бухарские евреи всегда были и всегда останутся наши братьями и сестрами. Bukharian Jews have always been and will always remain our brothers and sisters. Love you from Dushanbe!

[@Davidjon97]

Rahmati kalon Salomat boshet Salom az isroil

[@lorzad16]

زنده باد به همه پارسیان از هرکجای دنیا، زنده باد ادمیت.

[@AbdulAli-ku9he]

young Afghan boy speaks beautiful Persian, love it.

[@sarihfuad2703]

did you notice the conversation between the mom & son about the father /dad? if the editor used English translation for international viewers then it would have been more good!

[@AbdulAli-ku9he]

@@sarihfuad2703 🤣🤣

[@sarihfuad2703]

@@AbdulAli-ku9he watch balochi persian video and notice 00:50 second when the korean guy laughed 🤭

[@user-gj8yy9vc4y]

Zaban-e farsi is very beautiful language!♥️♥️♥️🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯 Greetings from Qazaqstan 🇰🇿🙋🏻‍♂️ سلامت باشید هر جای که هستید

[@agostocobain2729]

If you google “the most poetic language in the world” you get Persian! Watch google that

[@user-gj8yy9vc4y]

​@@agostocobain2729i know 😊

[@riyadhmohamedain4522]

I am a Sudanese Arab, and although Arabic and Persian obviously aren't part of the same language family, I couldn't help but notice the many many Arabic loanwords in all of these persian dialects, it is cool that even from so far away we are so inter-related across language, cultural, and relgious lines. Sending much love to all my Persian-speaking brothers and sisters from all over the world.

[@jonam7589]

islam and arab inasions.

[@Ghurshah]

Culturally they are Muslim, so many Arabic words are used

[@Yazdegerdiranyar]

Usually most are from the Persian origin existing in Arabic as loan words

[@samspear8772]

Iranian ladies are so beautiful and sweet!!!

[@67alphabeastakamrstealyour41]

Kilos of make up does that for you. It's a fact :)

[@nightowl1826]

@@67alphabeastakamrstealyour41 haha someone's jealous.

[@lilavcan6106]

Hello to our Tajiks brothers and sisters from a Kurdish girl I love you 🇹🇯🥰

[@NN-hz1he]

Hi from Tajik. Big respect to our kurd brother and sisters

[@user-vq1cx9rt3f]

Siposi bisyor, khohari aziz!

[@mohammadpanjshiri694]

@@lilavcan6106 nice to chat with you what do you for living

[@user-vq1cx9rt3f]

@Мастурбек Кумысович salam, kyrgyzbacha pyzdaglaziy

[@alamutzzz]

@Мастурбек Кумысович UZBAK SHUT UP

[@ahmadrezapashaei1059]

Hope Persian-speaking people in Uzbekistan would keep their language... love & respect from your kurdish brother❤

[@ahmadrezapashaei1059]

@@simkoshkak6732 men la sorani/kormanji zurbash neem. Zman englisi qesya beka.

[@ahmadrezapashaei1059]

@@simkoshkak6732 my ancestors are from many kurdish cities. Paweh, Arwînawa/Şabad, Iwan, Kirmaşan. But i'm borned in Kirmaşan myself.

[@ahmadrezapashaei1059]

@@simkoshkak6732 what about you? Sorani? Gorani? Kormanj? & which city?

[@simkoshkak6732]

@@ahmadrezapashaei1059 Iam sorani iam from Hawlêr Her biji Bo Kurdistani Gawra

[@aladdinbenokba6127]

When are Kurds in Iran going to liberate their land and bring it back from the Iranian regime?

[@OhMaDayzz]

Do Tati as well. Because Jews in the Caucasus (Mountain Jews) speak Tati, a Persian dialect. Some Muslims and Armenians also speak it in the Caucasus.

[@IranAzadLoading]

Tati is a bit harder I think. It’s more Middle Persian, but would be interesting.

[@milletiibrahim7081]

@@IranAzadLoading tati very close to persian. tati is one of new iranian languages like tajiki dari and persian

[@rhimbdlzad7566]

I am an ethnic Tat, and my IG is @hichparez . Feel free to contact me if you decide to do a video with Tat.

[@OhMaDayzz]

@@rhimbdlzad7566 What's it like being Tat in Azerbaijan today, and how come most have been assimilated? Do you guys feel connected to Iran?

[@rhimbdlzad7566]

@@OhMaDayzz thanks for asking. well, we were unlucky because the area Tats live in are the territories surrounding Baku, and the Absheron peninsula itself used to be populated by Tats with overwhelming majority until the oil boom. After the Russians set up oil industry here, many people from turkic-speaking western provinces immigrated to Baku for work, and this lead to immense assimilation. After that, during Stalin's reign, Azerbaijani was made the only local language with official status alongside Russian, and any official usage of other languages such as Tat & Talysh was dismissed. Most parents stopped talking to their kids in Tati, as they feared it would be hard for them to get along at school and find jobs, therefore the majority of the members of our last two generations do not speak, or barely speak the Tati language. When it comes to connection with Iran, the views are very different. For example, when I first learned that our roots are from Iran, I was pretty surprised and I got obsessed with Iran and even learned some Farsi. That was when I was 13-14 years old. But I started to look at it more constructively later, for me, people living in modern-day RoA feel culturally closer than most Iranians. After all, most Tats also see it this way, we feel more Azərbaycanlı (a person from Azerbaijan) than anything else, even more Azeri than Tat. But I have to say there is a very small minority who talks about stuff like Eranshahr, and how Iran is the homeland of all of us. I hope I could answer your question :)

[@theholypootischurch]

0:25 i am a bukharian jew and im very thankful to see this video , very interesting about the parsian cultures thank you so much!!! I speak a little bukharian and little persian i use it to a famliy meetings

[@mohamedbenabdellahaghzout95]

Bahadoor is really really happy hh he's enjoying the conversation, there is nothing like the person's mother tongue

[@hatemabu-assad6959]

I think he had more fun here than any of the other videos 😂

[@mohamedbenabdellahaghzout95]

@@hatemabu-assad6959 I saw almost every video and I never saw him smiling and happy the way he is in this one

[@TGDCChannel]

@@mohamedbenabdellahaghzout95 it's the language he's comfortable at most.

[@hatemabu-assad6959]

@@mohamedbenabdellahaghzout95 true 😂

[@hatemabu-assad6959]

@@TGDCChannel makes sense

[@aleksandalexander172]

There’s so many Bukharians where I live near in Forest Hills, I’m Afghan Tajik

[@philliparieff7862]

Yes among ourselves, Orthodox Jews, Bukharian, Ashkenazi, Sefaradi, Yemenite, we affectionately (some of us )call Forest Hills "Queensistan".

[@OmarOsman98]

Forest Hills is a nice neighborhood

[@aleksandalexander172]

@@OmarOsman98 it is but I live on Long Island

[@OmarOsman98]

@@aleksandalexander172 you muslim?

[@aleksandalexander172]

@@OmarOsman98 yea

[@fredaliev5478]

hi to my iranian brothers and sisters no matter Kurdish talish or Ossetian from Tajikistan

[@fredaliev5478]

@@simkoshkak6732 As all the world know that we are an Iranian people, not turk no arab.

[@sepidehzandi139]

@@simkoshkak6732 I listened to a Kurdish anthem and it was nice until it said we're not Turks, Arabs or Iranians. Well yes, Kurds are not Turks and Arabs, but Kurds are Iranic people and should join forces with other Iranic people.

[@sepidehzandi139]

@@simkoshkak6732 I'm not talking about Iran's current government. I'm talking about the people.

[@simkoshkak6732]

@@sepidehzandi139 I know what do you mean Iranian means(Kurdish,Persians,Afghans) like we have Germanic BTW Salute❤️❤️

[@sepidehzandi139]

@@simkoshkak6732 Much love ❤

[@tannazmehrdadi8774]

This was such a fun video and I loved all your guests! 💖 I learned some new things as well 😊Bobby seems like such a fun guy to chat with btw! Love you all 💖 واقعا دستتون درد نکنه خیلی لذت بردم 💕💕

[@royalflush8903]

@Issa Ismayilzada 🙌👍

[@IranAzadLoading]

@Issa Ismayilzada nece sen ham farsli ham azerili eger sen cumhuriye Azerbaijanda gelirsen? Sen tatisen yani?

[@malolelei3937]

Truly fantastic. Thank you so much Bahador jan for organizing this video. I had never heard the Bokhari Jewish dialect before so it was really interesting. Tajik Persian in general sounds very nice to me and the Jewish version was also beautiful and easy to understand. Hope to see Bobby again in your channel in the future. Lots of love. Rahmat e kalaan 😊

[@bukharianboy]

Thank you so much! Rahmati kalonu salomat boshed!

[@IranAzadLoading]

@@bukharianboy shomaham Salomat bashin, dosthae Azizemun :)

[@tajiksamarkandian2473]

@@IranAzadLoading salomat boshed shumo ham, ma tajikhai Samarqand bisyar dust medarem persians, afghan tajiks and other farsizabanan. Rahmati kalon

[@malolelei3937]

@@bukharianboy ❤❤❤

[@erfan6132]

Love jew persian from iran❤️❤️

[@JohnSmith-tr8yr]

This video is great but has only one minus, it’s short I enjoyed watching it as a Persian speaker

[@sariqqiz4858]

Thank you for this video! I spent several months in Samarkand and I'm learning Uzbek. But due to the fact that many words in Uzbek are loan words from Persian and because many Tajiks living in Samarkand, I learned some basic Tajik language and could understand more or less of Bukhori. I also visited the synagogues in Bukhara and Samarkand. Very interesting places.

[@nightwatcher1426]

Great, enjoyed it immensely. Thanks from Tel Aviv, Isreal

[@aryanhassan4659]

U mean occupied Palestine?

[@loochhmm6334]

@@aryanhassan4659 cry arab

[@aryanhassan4659]

@@loochhmm6334 lol... I'm south Asian.... 🙏🙏🙏

[@loochhmm6334]

@@aryanhassan4659 still a member of the ummah 😹

[@maksatbekburkanov4522]

Greetings to my Samarkand and Bukharians from kyrgyz turks, I understood 30%

[@TheInfinityy]

Do you speak Tajik or Persian?

[@tajiksamarkandian2473]

Salam my farsazaban friends az Samarqand salom arz mekunam ba hamai shumohon.

[@burzumimmortal5667]

Салом бар шумо Бародари хамзабон .. Навроз бар шумо ва Оилаитон Муборак бод . Иншоаллох ки дар соли Джадид ба Тамоми орзухоятон Берасид . Зинда бод Фарси забонани Джахон . Слава Узбекистанy и Таджикистанy из Ирана ❤️🇮🇷💙🇺🇿💛🇹🇯💚

[@user-zr2bf2yf6r]

Dorud bar shouma duste gerami❤❤❤

[@somedude6683]

The mutual love, respect, kindness and unity in the end was beautiful.

[@kriant65]

Shalom, Sal'aam, Greetings, I'm from India. I speak Hindustani. When I listen to Farsi, Turkish, Pasto and other dialects, I'm amazed as to the number of words that I can actually understand. Not suprising given the 1000 odd years of close connection. Bahador, you are doing humanity a yeoman service by hosting this channel. To my friends from the land once called Pars. I had the privilege of visiting Iran a few years back and my head is fullof redolent memories. Peace and happiness be upon all of you. Amen, Ameen.

[@user-mv3iw3gs7s]

Walekumsalam sis 💐💕in pashton frn pak

[@curiousmind8510]

Salam, we are from Uzbekistan, and I understand many hindi words, because it sounds like in our mother tongue.

[@kriant65]

@@curiousmind8510 Sal'aam Rehmatullah Wa' Barakatu. Yes, you most certainly would, given the closeness between Uzbek and Persian. Like I was saying to Bahdur, the Turkic people for Central Asia had a lot of influence on the Indian Subcontinent- from the early Sultanate in Delhi, to Babur (who incidentally was a fellow country man,from Ferghana). 😀 What you call Hindi, is actually Hindustani, a patois spoken by the common folk, influenced by dialects from North India, Farsi, Arabic and Turkic even. Unfortunately, in a wierd way, in today's global age, we forget that we were Global, well sort of, even back then.

[@noname-bw4du]

Rahmat ba shumo Bobby. Man tojiki Samarqandi hastam. Tashakkuri ziyoda Bahodirjon, dard nabined

[@theark4833]

Droid va Salam baradar aziz az iran droud mefrestam be samargand va bukhara farhange iranzamio dar sarzamin afraseyab negah darid.❣️

[@noname-bw4du]

@@theark4833 Barodari forszabonam durud ba shoma ham. Zinda bosha eronzamin

[@TheInfinityy]

@@noname-bw4duman shumoya lahjai samarqandi na'gz mibinem. 😁 har doim ashulahoi samarqandi go'sh mukunem. Salom a hindiston 🙏

[@noname-bw4du]

@@TheInfinityy Salom mardumi Hindistonba. Mohon ham ashulahoi(surud), kino(movie) hindiya nagz mibinem. Rahmati kalon

[@TheInfinityy]

@@noname-bw4dushumo zaboni Anglisi suxan kada metavonet?

[@Hermesborugerdian]

I’m an Iranian Persian jew and I’m so happy we married into a Bokhari Persian Jewish family so our next generations will keep the Persian sugar surviving ❤️🙏🏼

[@gueltepe4903]

🇮🇷❤🇮🇱

[@fash6353]

Lol why you sugar coat it just say that you’re happy that you’re keeping your jewish blood-line in check for the next generation

[@Hermesborugerdian]

@@fash6353 Ofcouse I’m happy about that too! But in addition to that, keeping Persian culture highly matters to me. Many Persian Jews refuse to marry out side of Persian Jewish community even to other Jews who aren’t Persian

[@fash6353]

@@Hermesborugerdian what part of Iran you guys live in ?

[@Hermesborugerdian]

@@fash6353 Most places in Iran had or still has a Jewish community

[@Gundosk]

What a great guy Bobby! In Tajikistan we still remember the best singers and dancers who were Bukhara Jews. ❤️ You speak Tajik dialect as if though you have lived there 😁 Greetings from a Tajik Pamiri in Germany 🌈

[@JavidShah246]

Ey jaan e delam bobby! Cheghadr ke to ba hali ❤️ jeddan lezzat bordam, tashakkor🙏🏻 Agar aan turk e shirazi, be dast arad del e maa ra...Be xal henduash baxsham, samarghand o buxara ra!

[@persianparsa]

Such an interesting video, and really great guests. It reminded me as an Iranian American when I went to Russia for the world cup and met so many tajiki people who lived in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and their accents and particular sweet vocabulary. Bobby's Farsi and linguistic knowledge in general is very impressive!

[@v4life83]

Thank for making this episode❤️

[@ZOLIZAR1]

Ба тамоми азизони Порсӣ забон Навруз ҳучаста бод, Яздони меҳрабон ҳамаи шумоёнро пируз созад ва дар паноҳаш нигаҳ дорад, Поянда бод Порсӣ ва Порсизабонони гетӣ, дуруд ва сипос аз Тоҷикистон. Happy Nowruz to all dear Persians, may the merciful God bless you all and keep you safe, Long live Persian and Persian-speaking world, greetings and thanks from Tajikistan. به تمام عزیزان پارسی زبان نوروز هچسته باد , یزدان میهربان همه شمایان را پروز سازد و در پناهش نگه دارد , پاینده باد پارسی و پارسزبانان گیتی , درود و سپاس از تاجیکستان . נאוורוז שמח לכל הפרסים היקרים, שאלוהים הרחמן יברך את כולכם וישמור עליכם, יחי עולם דובר פרסית ופרסית, ברכות ותודות מטג'יקיסטן.

[@shayanghafoori2611]

Дуруд ба салом аз ирон ❤️

[@afghanzoroastrian7854]

Happy Nowruz Day my Persian and Pashtun brothers 🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯

[@Leo-qz2zd]

Happy Nowruz! Are you Pashtun? I have many questions based on your name. Did you convert to Zoroastrianism?

[@afghanzoroastrian7854]

@@Leo-qz2zd I’m Pashtun yes and I am born Zoroastrian I’m not converted

[@afghanzoroastrian7854]

@Dardic Kashmir yes because we are very small in numbers but my tribe is Zirak, in Herat

[@TM-vf3so]

Isn't Pashtun Muslim sunni's how did they apparently became Zoroastrian majusi damn I couldn't understand?

[@Ghurshah]

​@@afghanzoroastrian7854 Zorastrian born ? Lol Maybe your parents converted? Or they just rejected Islam BC of being Communist ? Zorastrians do not exist in Afghanistan in the open, and if they do they exist only amongst the Persians/Tajiks, but hidden. Even some ancient Christians exist but also hidden.

[@fanzy1338]

This was one of the most interesting videos you’ve made. At least I would rank it among top ten. ty

[@paulo929refael2]

What a sweet video! Thanks so much Bahador and friends! 🙏🏼💖

[@manipirooz5806]

This was honestly so fun and entertaining to watch. Enjoyed every moment of it 👏🏻👏🏻

[@hassanalast6670]

This video is wonderful I hope everyone will be enjoying.

[@avtaras]

Thank you for this video! I have family from Bukhara

[@OK-ur2wy]

Very educating, many kind thanks Bahador

[@madinadj89]

Wonderful video that draws connections among beautiful languages! Thank you for bringing these language speakers together.

[@VermontStrolls]

Your videos are like precious gifts every Sunday morning. Keep them going man.

[@elizaa.367]

Hearing Bukhori was very interesting, I'm glad it was featured. Love this !

[@theohotz]

Absolutely moving to see these meetings taking place! Thank you very very much for your videos, Bahador! They’re really inspiring and educational. That’s a wonderful work.

[@haimonpgh]

Thank you Bahador for putting these videos together! Aside from being interesting for any lover of languages, it shows our common humanity and similarities between peoples who often fail to be aware of their linguistic similarities among others!

[@felixnaim00]

So entertaining! Nice job everyone

[@chloetaylor3243]

Such a wonderful video. ❤️❤️

[@KS-rh3qq]

Thank you Bahador, it is one of your best videos. Dear Bobby, thank you and your family for keeping your roots alive even on another continent. Be proud, Be as you are.

[@timaglam9140]

This is so beautiful...thank u guys

[@BarondeCastro]

Thank you so much for this video. It left me with a great feeling. A feeling of hope for mankind. We have more things in common than we thought. Thanks again!

[@letsTAKObout_it]

I love the Persian language comparisons. Also really love seeing different Jewish languages on the channel. The comments at the end from all of your participants (and you, Bahador!) were so sweet and sincere. Great job to all involved!

[@Kig_Ama]

This channel is so great, at certain points I got goose bumps. So much deep and mixed culture, I like that so much, just my flavor of taste.

[@saraoushka.n7971]

Thank you Bahadour for this episode u have no idea how important it is سلمولي ع البخاري

[@candlespotlight]

I’m so curious about Bukhori since I have some Bukharian friends and neighbors, so thank you!! You always bless me up with the exact languages I’m interested in. Thank you!!

[@payamabbasi3555]

One of the reasons I love this online format is the fact that we can see many languages that wouldn't be possible in the last format, it's truly amazing and I learn something new with every video

[@Leo-qz2zd]

That's true. I didn't like the online format at first but now I'm starting to really enjoy it!

[@antirealistmetaphysician]

So much love to you all from Iran! Bobby was such a charming presence. Thanks, Bahador jaan, for another heart-warming video, and happy Nowruz! 💐

[@abodavidov4073]

Wow. It’s was great. Very well done. Much love for what you do.

[@mehran5329]

I really enjoyed this episode, Bukhari accent is so sweet

[@marceliskhakov2850]

@Bahador Alast I love this video I’m also bukharian Jew and I’m very happy that you showed us the difference and the similarities between the dialects, when I listen to Farsi it sounds like a french to me, I can understand only a few words and sentences. For my opinion Bukharian/tajik Jews language sounds like old Persian and yes it also has a lot of Uzbek, Aramaic and old Hebrew words... Bahador I have a request for you... please make a video that shows the difference between the Bukharian Jews dialect and the Tajik dialect, I knew that a lot of people say and think that its the same language but when I was in Tajikistan and I spoke to Tajiks in my dialect I had to repeat a sentence several times to be understood...

[@marceliskhakov2850]

@@mohammadpanjshiri694 To be honest with you in this video when Bobby speaks to the Persian speakers in Bukharian he tries to use the tajik accent and dialect to make them understand him better, for example when he talks to them he says the word “gap” : “gap zadan”, “gap bizanim”, this is the tajik dialect... in bukharian it is turns to “gav/gaw ” : “gav zadan” “gav mezanim” “gav zasode”. And the word “zabon” it’s turns to “zavon” = tong/language... For the record if this topic is interesting you you can watch this video it is about bukharian Jews language and you’ll understand what I mean.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipnZd2eQrs58ias

[@user-nl2nt6jq8f]

​@marceliskhakov2 Нет, неправда. В бухаре гап заднем, Гап задашиштем. Забон по Бухари будет тоже забон или збон. Я сам Бухарский таджик, мне уже около 70 лет, и ты не знаешь тему, это просто предвзятость и не уважение к Бухарскому таджикскому языку с твоей стороны. 850

[@maghzforreal610]

So good. I really enjoyed watching this video

[@vm845]

I liked the video so much ) Мне очень порнравилось это видео) אהבתי את הווידיאו ) Mersi Bahador!

[@jmudikun]

This was so beautiful, Bahador. As an Arabic and Hindi/Urdu speaker, this was wonderful to watch 😊. It is amazing to see how a language variety can survive despite migration and diaspora to far away places and national borders Thanks

[@collectivelove2275]

I love Bobby! What a fun guy!!

[@thedrewb2273]

I love this. Thank you!

[@guguls]

love this 🇦🇫🇮🇷🇹🇯

[@harensharma3801]

There are also Iranian in the west coast of India but staying Gujrat for such a long time they accepted the Gujrati language and none them of speak Farsi.

[@theanti-imperialist1656]

So they have sadly succumbed to the globalist agenda?

[@iaw7406]

Parsis

[@iaw7406]

@@theanti-imperialist1656 no. Ridiculous.

[@theanti-imperialist1656]

@@iaw7406 facts actually

[@roms7626]

@@theanti-imperialist1656 no! It's really not any globalist agenda. Actually it's very difficult for them to preserve their language after a long time being a minority which is scattered all over in the state of Gujarat and India. But they still preserved their religion and the major concern is their decreasing population.

[@dinakora]

Loved itttt! was a pleasure to be a part of this mercii💘

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you for being a part of it Dina jan!

[@UMBUBA]

I grew up in Tajikistan and had Bukharian Jewish friends. I can 100% understand Bobby! Kheyli mamnoon be baradar ve khaharane Irane Bozourg!!!

[@avidavidzada4721]

Wow! This was so interesting.

[@asiaakperov6479]

Love your channel in general but this is by far my favorite video!! My entire family watched it and loved it- My dad who is half Bukharian, half Persian couldn't stop smiling throughout Amazing job Bobby representing the community!!

[@BahadorAlast]

Very happy to hear that!! 😀

[@ansosboy8687]

I very enjoyed your video salam From Indonesia

[@Truthteller1156]

This is the video I enjoyed listening and watching the most since I started watching on KZbin! Not enough words to express thank you!!!!!!!!❤❤❤

[@tanveer_asa]

I enjoyed the discussion, thanks

[@tahirrizwan6759]

This was crazy! I’ve read about Bokhari but never actually had the opportunity to hear it!

[@Kig_Ama]

Gelek spas, wes u war be, teşekkür ederim, danke schön and thank you. 🙂

[@harpazohope]

I haven't watched the whole video yet, but you have such a good idea for a KZbin channel! Subscribed. :)

[@mihandoostan3755]

درود و سپاس. برنامه تان همانند همیشه شیرین و دلنشین بود

[@OOOOOOO00]

Ofarin! Zinda boshed!

[@Simsrockslol]

i’m iranian i’m impressed with the girl on the left. she really understood so much more like than i did lol 😂

[@bukharianboy]

She lives in Turkey and my dialect that I was speaking here is heavily influenced by Uzbek, another Turkic language. Uzbek and Turkish are very similar so she speaks Turkish as well and it would be easier for her to understand central Asian Persian

[@doncorleone3082]

This is so cool!!

[@yezakhar]

Bahador kheili mamnun az in videohat. bargharar kardane in ta‘amolat va ashna kardane farsi zabanha ba gooyeshhaye motefavetesh kheili mohemme va kam roosh kar shode 👏

[@Buen586]

Zende bashi Bahador jan. Dorod az tajikani Kazakhistan ba hamai farsi zabanan

[@mohammadpanjshiri694]

Tajikan dr Kazakhstan hum ast

[@Buen586]

@@mohammadpanjshiri694 baleh, bish az 50 000

[@tajiksamarkandian2473]

@@mohammadpanjshiri694 They are refugees from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in Sovet era, mostly in South Kazakhstan

[@Farrukhsiyar159]

I love Bobby! Please have him back on, Bahador! His laugh is contagious! Can you also please ask him (hope he sees this) to make a real effort to save his endangered dialect? He can at least record it so future generations can piece it together to recreate it.

[@yasnayeganeh3620]

واقعا عالییی بود، من از ویدیوهای مقایسه گویش های مختلف زبان فارسیتون خیلی لذت میبرم😆🌹

[@christophermorgen8505]

Wonderful and joyful! - Greetings, Christopher, Denmark

[@TJ-cj7en]

As an Urdu speaker, I find it fascinating that I can understand some of this! Just goes to show how much more similar different people are than what they might think

[@MisterTMH]

I speak Urdu too but I have studied Farsi and now I am concentrating on learning Dari. I can recommend learning Dari if you speak Urdu. You can thank me later :-) .

[@pappi187]

That is because Urdu is an artificial language made up from farsi arabic and hindi.

[@ibrahimhamidi6980]

@@MisterTMHwhat do u mean btly Dari??? Dari is an accent of Persian, but Dari accent is more close to Urdu than others accemt

[@davidkasquare]

What a beautiful video! It was interesting and all the people were so sympathetic and nice. Is the young guy next to you interacting in some other videos? He seemed to be very much into the languages, even though he mostly spoke in the beginning of this clip. Tashakkor mikonam!

[@BahadorAlast]

Thank you! No, he hasn't been in any other videos. We'd love to have him back again!

[@TheSbh2010]

I am from north of Afghanistan and I understood pretty much everything what he said.

[@thewitcher5440]

Bobby is a great guy !love to all )

[@malaysiadentist4637]

What a great guy! I am enjoying this beautiful language Farsi! I speak Malay and I am sure there are so many similarities in our languages as well!!!

[@sardortoshmatov50]

I am tajik and in Malaysia which I'm learning Bahasa melayu. There r so many similarities but mostly malays think those persian words come from arabic.

[@16donamirof]

عالی بود بهادر جان. من خیلی لهجه مردم آسیای میانه رو دوست دارم.

[@dragonitetamer2298]

I would love to see an Omani Arabic and Swahili episode or an Omani Arabic and Urdu/Hindi one. The Omani accent is very interesting and contributed a lot to Swahili but was also heavily influenced by Urdu/Hindi. Thanks for all the work and always look forward to watching the content from this channel 💫