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A late 19th-century Uzbek test in Hebrew script
Seiten 216 - 233
DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/TL/2016/2/216
This paper presents and analyses half a page of Uzbek text that appears in a Tajik-language prose work published at the turn of the 20th-century. The Uzbek text was written by a Bukharan bilingual who had Bukharan Tajik as his native language but also possessed competence in Uzbek. The text is a rare example of an Uzbek text written in fully vocalized Hebrew script, and thus provides a rare glimpse into the Tajik-Uzbek bilingualism in the capital area of the emirate of Bukhara in the late 19th century.