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Modern Palestinian Judeo-Arabic

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Modern Palestinian Judeo-Arabic
Native toIsrael, Palestine
EthnicityOld Yishuv and Israeli-Jewish Descendants
Native speakers
5
Language codes
ISO 639-3

Modern Palestinian Judeo-Arabic is a variety of Palestinian Arabic that was spoken by the Old Yishuv in Ottoman Palestine , and currently by some Israeli Jews in Israel.

As Jews from Morocco established a community in the Galilee and around Jerusalem, their dialect of Maghrebi Judeo-Arabic mixed with Palestinian Arabic. It peaked at 10,000 speakers and thrived alongside Yiddish until the 20th century. But today it is nearly extinct with only 5 speakers remaining in the Galilee.[1] It would begin to decline due to the revival of Hebrew as Hebrew became the dominant language of the Yishuv before the establishment of the State of Israel. Modern Judeo-Palestinian Arabic contains influence from Judeo-Moroccan Arabic, Judeo-Lebanese Arabic, and Judeo-Syrian Arabic.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Judeo-Arabic". Jewish Languages. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
  2. ^ Geva-Kleinberger, Aharon (2018-11-05), "Judeo-Arabic in the Holy Land and Lebanon", Languages in Jewish Communities, Past and Present, De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 569–580, doi:10.1515/9781501504631-021, ISBN 978-1-5015-0463-1, S2CID 134826368, retrieved 2024-01-25