Kuliab and Leninabad

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Kuliab and Leninabad

dusseaux.antoine_289191, Mon, 2022-10-31 10:18
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Ethnologue says that Tajiki Arabic is spoken in "Kuliab and Leninabad cities." I quickly check and couldn't find sources. Is this affirmation correct?

Also, Kuliab is now known as Kulob (I don't know since when), and Leninabad as Khujand (since 1991). Names should at least be updated.

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We will update the location for Tajiki Spoken Arabic [abh] in Tajikistan, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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Chuck Fennig, Mon, 2022-10-31 10:58

Dear Antoine,

Thank you for this information on Tajiki Spoken Arabic [abh].

The names of the 2 cities were entered into Ethnologue many years ago, so we do not have a source. However, we will at least update the two names.

Best regards,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

dusseaux.antoine_289191, Mon, 2022-10-31 15:42

I found this 1965 source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30022536

"There is a very small minority of Arabic-speaking people in Tadzhik SSR".

These people live(d) in Vahdat (fka "Orjonikidzeobod", named after Ordzhonikidze) and in Pulatan, a jamoat part of the city of Konibodom in Sughd Region.

So this source mentions neither Kuliab nor Leninabad.

This 1970 source ( https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-orient... ) says that Arabic used to be spoken in Khojend (fka Leninabad) but that it is now only spoken "in the villages of Jōgarḹ, Čardaḹ (Ġijduwān district) and ‘Arab-Xōna (Wobkend district) of the Bukhārā region and in the village of Jeinau in the Qashqa-daryā region".

So we could add "used to be spoken in Khujand/Leninabad".

I guess the situation is similar for Kuliab/Kulob but I cannot find a source.

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