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Preferred term

jbeJudeo-Berber  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Judeo-Berber is a term used primarily for the Berber varieties traditionally spoken by the Jewish communities of certain parts of central and southern Morocco. Speakers emigrated to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s. While mutually comprehensible with the Tamazight spoken by most inhabitants of the area (Galand-Pernet et al. 1970:14), these dialects are distinguished by the use of Hebrew loanwords and the pronunciation of š as s (as in many Jewish Moroccan Arabic dialects).

Entry terms

  • Judeo-Berber language

ISO 639-3 code

  • jbe

Notation

  • jbe

In other languages

  • Judéo-berbère

    French

  • Judäo-Berberische Sprache

    German

  • Portuguese

  • Judeo-Bereber

    Spanish

URI

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

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