Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
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Judeo-Iraqi Arabic | ||
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Spoken in: | Israel, Iraq | |
Total speakers: | 100,100 | |
Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Judeo-Iraqi Arabic |
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Writing system: | Hebrew alphabet | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | yhd | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
Judeo-Iraqi Arabic (also known as Iraqi Judeo-Arabic, Arabi, Yahudic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Iraq. 99% of all speakers now live in Israel. Speakers are older adults. [1]
The best known form is Jewish Baghdadi Arabic, though there were different dialects in Mosul and elsewhere.
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- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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