Judeo-Iraqi Arabic

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Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
Spoken in: Israel, Iraq
Total speakers: 100,100
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Semitic
  West Semitic
   Central Semitic
    South Central Semitic
     Arabic
      Judeo-Iraqi Arabic 
Writing system: Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: yhd

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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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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