Russian: Loanwords adopted after the Russian Empire's annexation of Daghestan and Azerbaijan Northeast Caucasian languages: e.g. "small" (probably the same origin as the medieval Caucasian city name "Sera-chuk" mentioned by Ibn Battuta, meaning "little Sera") Other common phonology/morphology changes from classical Persian/Arabic/Hebrew: > /o/, /æ/, or /u/ e.g. "book" (Arab. ), "road/path" (Pers. rāh), "sacrifice" (Arab. or Aramaic ) /o/ > /u/ e.g. "Absalom" (Heb. Abshalom) /u/ > /y/, especially under the influence of vowel harmony Stress on final syllable words Dropping of the final /n/, e.g. /soχtæ/ "to make" (Pers. sākhtan) Dialects Being a variety of the Tat language, Judeo-Tat itself can be divided into several dialects: Quba dialect (traditionally spoken in Quba and Qırmızı Qəsəbə). Derbent dialect (traditionally spoken in the town of Derbent and the surrounding villages). Kaitag dialect (spoken in the North Caucasus). The dialects of Oğuz (formerly Vartashen) and the now extinct Jewish community of Mücü have not been studied well and thus cannot be classified. See also Bukharian (Judeo-Tajik dialect) References Further reading External links Judeo-Tat literature Горско-еврейский язык (словарь, грамматика, библиотека) JUHURO.RU - Информационно развлекательный портал горских евреев Горские Евреи Израиля population ~70,000 Горские Евреи Нальчика Mountain Jews of Nalchik. Горские Евреи Америки Mountain Jews of the US. Сайт Горских Евреев Культура новости Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World: "Juhūrī (Judeo-Tat or Judeo-Tātī)", p 16 sq, print: Brill, Leiden 2010 Judeo-Persian languages Languages of the Caucasus Endangered Iranian languages Languages of Azerbaijan Languages of Russia Persian language