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Baghdad Arabic (Jewish)
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| Baghdad Arabic (Jewish) | ||
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| Spoken in: | Iraq, Israel | |
| Total speakers: | — | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South-Central Semitic Arabic Baghdad Arabic (Jewish) |
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| Writing system: | Arabic alphabet | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | none | |
| Regulated by: | none | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | ? | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Baghdad Arabic Jewish is the Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Baghdad and other towns of Southern Iraq. This dialect differs than the dialect spoken by the Jews in Northern Iraq, such as Mosul and 'Ana.
Jews in Baghdad used to speak Jewish Baghdadi at home and with members of their community, but with Muslims they usually used the Muslim dialect. Jewish Baghdadi was used in Jewish Baghdadian communities established in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries in Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hongkong, Manchester and many other places.
After the emigration of Jews from Iraq to Israel, Israel became the major center of Jewish Baghdadi speakers. It is mainly the older people who still speak Jewish Baghdad Arabic in its original form and it is believed that theirs is perhaps the last generation to speak it as a mother tongue.
The Jews of Baghdad also have a written language, which uses Hebrew characters.
- Kees Versteegh, et al. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, BRILL, 2006.
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| Pre-Muslim conquests | Ancient North Arabian† (Safaitic†, Lihyanitic†, Thamudic†, Hasaitic†) · Classical Arabic |
| Modern Standard Variety | Literary Arabic |
| Maghrebi Arabic | Moroccan Arabic · Algerian Arabic · Tunisian Arabic · Andalusian Arabic† · Libyan Arabic · Jebli Arabic · Jijel Arabic · Saharan Arabic · Hassānīya · Maltese language · Siculo-Arabic† |
| Levantine Arabic | Lebanese Arabic · Syrian Arabic · North Syrian Arabic · Palestinian Arabic · Cypriot Maronite Arabic |
| Arabian Arabic | Gulf Arabic · Bahrani Arabic · Najdi Arabic · Hejazi Arabic · Shargi Arabic · Yemeni Arabic (Hadhrami Arabic) |
| Iraqi Arabic | Baghdad Arabic |
| Egyptian Arabic | Cairene Arabic · Sa'idi Arabic |
| Sudanese Arabic | Sudanese Arabic · Nigerian Arabic . Chadian Arabic |
| Peripheries | Khuzestani Arabic · Shirvani Arabic† · Central Asian Arabic |
| Judeo-Arabic | Judeo-Moroccan · Judeo-Yemenite · Baghdad Arabic (Jewish) |
| Creoles | Nubi language · Babalia Creole Arabic · Juba Arabic |
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