Uzbekistan

Balkh, Khorasan, Khatlon, Bukhara, Qashqadarya, Samarqand, and Surkhandarya regions.

"The largest single community of Central Arabic speakers, 5,159 out of a total ethnic population of 14,450, resides mainly in the south of Tajikistan, in the villages of Ayvaj, Shaartuz, Beshkent, Sayod, Kabodiyon, Hushadi, Panj, and Farhor. Smaller numbers have migrated to the cities of Dushanbe, Gissar, and Tursunzoda. ... there are reportedly still a few hundred elderly speakers of Arabic in Uzbekistan, in the villages of Jogari and ʿArabkhona near Bukhara, and in the village of Jeinau in the Qashqa Darya region, which are not mutually intelligible."