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Judeo-Arabic (Judeo-Arabic: ערביה יהודיה, romanized: 'Arabiya Yahūdiya; Arabic: عربية يهودية, romanized: ʿArabiya Yahūdiya (listen) ⓘ; Hebrew: ערבית יהודית, romanized: 'Aravít Yehudít (listen) ⓘ) is Arabic, in its formal and vernacular varieties, as it has been used by Jews, and refers to both written forms and spoken dialects.
Modern Palestinian Judeo-Arabic (MPJA) is a variety of Palestinian and Moroccan [citation needed] Arabic that was spoken by the Old Yishuv in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, and currently by a few Israeli Jews in Israel. It was once spoken by around 10,000 speakers in the 20th century. [1]
The best known variety is Baghdad Jewish Arabic, although other dialects were spoken in Mosul and elsewhere. The vast majority of Iraqi Jews have relocated to Israel and switched to Modern Hebrew as their first language. The 2014 film Farewell Baghdad is mostly in Baghdad Jewish Arabic. It was the first movie filmed in Judeo-Iraqi Arabic.
Judeo-Yemeni Arabic (also known as Judeo-Yemeni and Yemenite Judeo-Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Yemen. The language is quite different from mainstream Yemeni Arabic , [ citation needed ] and is written in the Hebrew alphabet .
Judeo-Moroccan Arabic is the variety or the varieties of the Moroccan vernacular Arabic spoken by Moroccan Jews living or formerly living in Morocco. [2] [3] Historically, the majority of Moroccan Jews spoke Moroccan vernacular Arabic, or Darija, as their first language, even in Amazigh areas, which was facilitated by their literacy in Hebrew script.
Judeo-Egyptian Arabic is one of the Judeo-Arabic dialects. [1] It is close to the dialect of Alexandria , and this similarity holds true even for those who speak it in Cairo. For example, in Cairene Arabic , "I write" is baktib ( بكتب ) and "I eat" is bakol .
After the exodus of Jews from Syria, Judeo-Syrian Arabic largely died out in favor of English, Spanish, and Hebrew among the Syrian Jewish diaspora.There was a Judeo-Syrian Arabic speaking community in İskenderun until 1998 but it no longer exists.
Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, also known as Judeo-Tunisian, is a variety of Tunisian Arabic mainly spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Tunisia. [6] Speakers are older adults, and the younger generation has only a passive knowledge of the language.