Baghdad Arabic (Jewish)
- Baghdad Arabic (Jewish)
Baghdad Jewish Arabic is the
Arabic dialect spoken by theJew s of Baghdad and other towns of SouthernIraq . This dialect differs from the dialect spoken by the Jews in Northern Iraq, such asMosul and'Ana . This is a subvariety ofJudeo-Iraqi Arabic .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 inBombay ,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 Judeo-Arabic, which uses Hebrew characters.
ee also
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Iraqi Arabic
*Judeo-Arabic languages References
*Kees Versteegh, et al. "Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics": Brill 2006.
*Mansour, Jacob, "The Jewish Baghdadi Dialect: Studies and Texts in the Judaeo-Arabic Dialect of Baghdad": The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Centre 1991External links
* [http://semarch.uni-hd.de/sprecher.php4?&ORT_ID=9 Jewish Baghdadi recordings]
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