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The language is related to Persian ; it belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European Languages . A similar, but still different language is spoken by the Muslim Tats of Azerbaijan , a group to which the Mountain Jews were mistakenly considered to belong during the Soviet Era. The words Juhuri and Juhuro literally translate as "Jewish" and "Jews." Juhuri has Semitic (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) elements on all linguistic levels. Juhuri has the Hebrew sound "ayin" (ע) while no neighboring languages have it. In the early 20th century Juhuri used the Hebrew Script . In the 1920s Latin Script was adapted for it; later it was written in Cyrillic Characters . Recently, the use of the Hebrew alphabet has enjoyed renewed popularity. The language is presently spoken by an estimated 101,000 people:
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