Judeo-Iraqi Arabic

Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
Spoken in	Israel, Iraq
Native speakers	100,100 (date missing)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Judeo-Iraqi Arabic; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yhd

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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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Maslawi

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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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Ethnologue entry for Judeo-Iraqi Arabic

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

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Judeo-Iraqi Arabic

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