Judeo-Iraqi Arabic

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Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
Native to Israel, Iraq
Native speakers 100,130  (1994)[1]
Language family
Writing system Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
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.[2]

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

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  1. ^ Judeo-Iraqi Arabic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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