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Judeo-Iraqi Arabic Language Overview

Judeo-Iraqi Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews who lived in Iraq. It is now mostly spoken by older adults who live in Israel, as 99% of speakers have emigrated there. The best known dialect is Jewish Baghdadi Arabic, though there were also dialects in Mosul and elsewhere in Iraq. It is considered a endangered language as few young people still speak it.

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Judeo-Iraqi Arabic Language Overview

Judeo-Iraqi Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews who lived in Iraq. It is now mostly spoken by older adults who live in Israel, as 99% of speakers have emigrated there. The best known dialect is Jewish Baghdadi Arabic, though there were also dialects in Mosul and elsewhere in Iraq. It is considered a endangered language as few young people still speak it.

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Judeo-Iraqi Arabic

Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
Nativeto Native speakers Israel, Iraq 150,000 (ca.1994) [1]

Language family Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Writing system Hebrew alphabet Language codes ISO 639-3 yhd Judeo-Iraqi Arabic

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.[2] The best known form is Jewish Baghdadi Arabic, though there were different dialects in Mosul and elsewhere.

Notes
[1] Judeo-Iraqi Arabic reference (http:/ / www. ethnologue. com/ language/ yhd) at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) [2] Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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