JudeoArabic
Judeo-Arabic refers to the Arabic dialects historically used by Jewish communities across the Arab world, and to the literary tradition produced in those communities. It encompasses several regional varieties—most notably Iraqi, Moroccan, Yemeni, Egyptian, and Tunisian Judeo-Arabic—each rooted in its local Arabic speech while sharing common Jewish religious and cultural contexts. Unlike Judeo-Spanish or Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Arabic is not a single standardized language but a family of dialects linked by ethnoreligious use rather than by a uniform written standard.
Most Judeo-Arabic materials were written in the Hebrew alphabet, rendering Arabic phonology with Hebrew letters and
Historically, Judeo-Arabic flourished in major urban centers from late antiquity through the medieval and early modern