Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi

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A language of Israel

ISO 639-3
yhd
Alternate Names
Arabi, Iraqi Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Iraqi-Baghdadi Arabic, Yahudic
Population

100,000 in Israel (1994). Population total all countries: 151,820.

Location

Also in India, Iraq, United Kingdom.

Language Status

7 (Shifting).

Classification
Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
Dialects

Not intelligible with Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic [yud], Judeo-Tunisian Arabic [ajt], or Judeo-Moroccan Arabic [aju]. Similar to Baghdadi Arabic and North Mesopotamian Arabic [acm].

Language Use

Mainly older adults. Also use Hebrew [heb].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi
Writing
Hebrew script.
Other Comments

The term Yahudic is used by a few scholars to denote all Judeo-Arabic languages. Jewish.

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