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jrbJudeo-Arabic  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Judeo-Arabic languages (, ), are a continuum of Arabic dialects spoken by Jews living or formerly living in the Arab world; the term also refers more or less to Classical Arabic written in the Hebrew script, particularly in the Middle Ages. Just as with the rest of the Arab world, Arab Jews had different dialects depending on where they lived. This phenomenon may be compared to cases such as different forms of Yiddish (Judeo-German) such as Western Yiddish and Eastern Yiddish, or forms of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) in areas such as the Balkans, Thessaloníki/Istanbul, Morocco, etc.

Entry terms

  • Judeo-Arabic languages

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • jrb

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • jrb

ISO 639-3 code

  • jrb

Notation

  • jrb

In other languages

  • Judéo-arabe

    French

  • judéo-arabe
  • Judäo-Arabisch

    German

  • Jüdisch-Arabisch
  • Giudeo-Arabo

    Italian

  • giudeo arabo
  • Portuguese

  • Línguas judaico-árabes
  • Judeoárabe

    Spanish

  • judeo-árabe

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/jrb

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