Judeo-Arabic

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Judeo-Arabic is a group of Arabic dialects historically spoken and written by Jewish communities, typically using the Hebrew script and incorporating Hebrew and Aramaic elements.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish language
group of Arabic dialects
language variety
associatedReligion Judaism
culturalRole medium of Jewish communal records
medium of Jewish folk literature
medium of Jewish poetry
vehicle of Jewish-Arabic culture
hasAlternativeName Judeo-Arabic dialects
Yahudic Arabic
hasDialect Algerian Judeo-Arabic
Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic
Egyptian Judeo-Arabic
Moroccan Judeo-Arabic
Palestinian Judeo-Arabic
Syrian Judeo-Arabic
Tunisian Judeo-Arabic
Yemenite Judeo-Arabic
hasLinguisticElement Arabic vocabulary
Aramaic vocabulary
Hebrew vocabulary
hasLinguisticFeature code-switching between Hebrew and Arabic
lexical items specific to Jewish religious life
loanwords from Aramaic
loanwords from Hebrew
phonological features distinct from neighboring Arabic dialects
historicalUsage early modern period
medieval period
modern period
ISOStatus not standardized as a single ISO 639 code
languageFamily Afro-Asiatic languages
Semitic languages
notableAuthor Maimonides
Saadia Gaon
notableWorkLanguageOf Guide for the Perplexed
Judeo-Arabic Bible translations
Mishneh Torah introductions
region Algeria
Egypt
Iraq
Levant
Maghreb
Middle East
Morocco
North Africa
Palestine
Syria
Tunisia
Yemen
religiousFunction language of Jewish religious commentary
language of biblical exegesis
language of ethical literature
language of halakhic literature
language of philosophical works
language of responsa
scriptType consonantal alphabet
scriptVariant Rashi script
cursive Hebrew script
square Hebrew script
shiftedTo English
French
Israeli Hebrew
Modern Hebrew
sociolinguisticStatus endangered language
minority language
subclassOf Arabic
Central Semitic language
Semitic language
typicalScriptDirection right-to-left
usedBy Algerian Jews
Egyptian Jews
Iraqi Jews
Jewish communities
Mizrahi Jews
Moroccan Jews
Sephardi Jews
Syrian Jews
Tunisian Jews
Yemeni Jews
Yemenite Jews
usedFor commentaries on the Hebrew Bible
commentaries on the Talmud
community chronicles
letters and legal documents
philosophical treatises
translation of Jewish religious texts
usesAlphabet Arabic alphabet
Hebrew alphabet
writingSystem Arabic script
Hebrew script

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