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`
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.

[edit] Notes

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

[edit] References

Ethnologue entry for Judeo-Iraqi Arabic

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