Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi

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A language of Israel

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

94,000 in Israel (Leclerc 2018a). Total users in all countries: 97,200.

Location

Scattered.

Language Status

7 (Shifting).

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

None known. Reportedly not intelligible with Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic [yud] or Judeo-Moroccan Arabic [aju]. Reportedly similar to Baghdadi Arabic and North Mesopotamian Arabic [acm]. A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic [jrb].

Language Use

Adults only. Shifting to Hebrew [heb].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Judeo-Iraqi
Writing

Hebrew script [Hebr].

Other Comments

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

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