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{{Short description|Judeo-Arabic variety of Iraqi Jews}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
|altname=Iraqi Judeo-Arabic<br />Yahudic
|states= [[Iraq]], [[Israel]]
|speakers={{sigfig|97,200|2}}
|date=1992–2018
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
|fam2=[[Semitic languages|Semitic]]
|fam3=[[Central Semitic languages|Central Semitic]]
|fam4=[[South Central Semitic languages|South Central Semitic]]
|fam5=[[Arabic language|Arabic]]
|fam6=[[Mesopotamian Arabic|Mesopotamian]]
|fam7=[[North Mesopotamian Arabic|Qeltu]]
|dia1=[[Baghdad Jewish Arabic]]
|script=[[Arabic alphabet]]<br/>[[Hebrew alphabet]]
|iso3=yhd
|glotto=jude1266
|glottorefname=Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
}}

'''Judeo-Iraqi Arabic''' ({{langx|ar|عربية يهودية عراقية|translit=ʻArabīyah Yahūdīyah ʻIrāqīyah}}), also known as '''Iraqi Judeo-Arabic''' and '''Yahudic''', is a [[varieties of Arabic|variety of Arabic]] spoken by [[Iraqi Jews]].

==History==
The language originated among Jews living in various regions of Iraq. With the migration of Iraqi Jews to other countries, the language spread to those new locations.

In Israel, the language was widely used among Jews who immigrated from Iraq, and to this day, many Israelis, including those whose parents immigrated from Iraq, continue to use it.

The language was also used in the [[History of the Jews in India|Baghdadi community in India]] and other communities of Jewish Iraqi immigrants in the far east.

In 1992, there were 120 Judeo-Iraqi Arabic speakers remaining in Iraq.<ref name=e25/> In 2018, there were {{sigfig|94,000|2}} speakers of the language in Israel.<ref name=e25/> The best known variety is [[Baghdad Jewish Arabic]], although other dialects were spoken in Mosul and elsewhere.

The vast majority of Iraqi Jews have [[Iraqi Jews in Israel|relocated to Israel]] and [[language shift|switched]] to  [[Modern Hebrew]] as their [[first language]].

The 2014 film ''[[Farewell Baghdad (2013 film)|Farewell Baghdad]]'' is mostly in Baghdad Jewish Arabic. It was the first movie filmed in Judeo-Iraqi Arabic.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.language-museum.com/encyclopedia/a/arabic-judeo-iraqi.php Writing Sample]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VuuM2Colfg Speaking Sample]
*[http://www.language-archives.org/language/yhd OLAC resources in and about the Judeo-Iraqi Arabic language]

{{Varieties of Arabic}}
{{Jewish languages}}
{{Jews and Judaism in Iraq|state=collapsed}}
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[[Category:Jews and Judaism in Iraq]]
[[Category:North Mesopotamian Arabic]]
[[Category:Judeo-Arabic languages]]
[[Category:Mashriqi Arabic]]
[[Category:Languages of Israel]]
[[Category:Endangered Afroasiatic languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Iraq]]
[[Category:Jewish Iraqi history]]


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