Judeo-Arabic
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Spoken in |
 Israel , Morocco , Tunisia Other Arab countries
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| speaker | approx. 500,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
jrb |
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| ISO 639-3 |
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The Judeo-Arabic (also: Judeo-Arabic ) refers to several varieties of the Arabic language , that of the Arab world living Jews (today as Mizrahi were spoken designated) or.
Most of the many philosophical, religious and literary works of the Mizrachim were written in Judaeo-Arabic with the diacritically changed Hebrew alphabet ; a well-known example of this are the works of Maimonides . The documents in the geniza of the Ben Esra Synagogue in Cairo , which Solomon Schechter discovered in 1890, were an important find . This discovery has made a decisive contribution to the scientific development of Judaeo-Arabic and knowledge of the culture of the Mediterranean region .
After the proclamation of the State of Israel , most of the Mizrahim moved from their Arab-dominated countries of birth to the newly founded Jewish state. Approx. 475,000 Judaeo-Arabic speakers were given as the number of speakers in Israel (data from 1995), but today they often use Hebrew as a colloquial language. Of those who remained in the Arab world, over 5,000 live in Morocco and fewer than 2,000 in Tunisia , in each of the other Arab countries there are fewer than 100 speakers.
literature
- Joshua Blau : The Emergence and Linguistic Background of Judeo-Arabic . Oxford 1965. 2nd edition Jerusalem 1981. 3rd edition Jerusalem 1999
- Joshua Blau: Studies in Middle Arabic and its Judeo-Arabic Variety . Jerusalem 1988
- Shlomo Dov Goitein : A Mediterranean Society . The Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza. 6 vol. University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles 1967–1988. ISBN 0520032659 (Vol. III)
- Stefan C. Reif: A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo. Curzon, Richmont 2000. ISBN 0-7007-1312-3
- Werner Diem and Hans-Peter Radenberg: A Dictionary of the Arabic Material of SDGoitein's A Mediterranean Society. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994 (see: Joshua Blau, in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 19 (1995) 287–295)