Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi
A language of Israel
| Population | 100,000 in Israel (1994). Population total all countries: 100,130. |
| Region | Also in India, Iraq, United Kingdom. |
| Alternate names | Arabi, Iraqi Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Iraqi-Baghdadi Arabic, Yahudic |
| 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]. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb] (Israel). |
| Language use | Mainly older adults. Also use Hebrew [heb]. |
| Writing system | Hebrew script. |
| Comments | The term ‘Yahudic’ is used by a few scholars to denote all Judeo-Arabic languages. Jewish. |
Also spoken in:
Iraq
| Language name | Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi |
| Population | 120 in Iraq (1992 H. Mutzafi). |
| Region | Most in Israel. |
| Alternate names | Arabi, Iraqi Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Iraqi-Baghdadi Arabic, Yahudic |
| Language use | Older adults only. |
| Comments | Jewish. |
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