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Judeo-Moroccan

Judeo-Moroccan Arabic

Native to Israel, Morocco, France

Native speakers ca. 260,000 (1992)[1]

Language family Afro-Asiatic

Semitic

Central Semitic

South Central Semitic

Arabic

Judeo-Moroccan Arabic

Writing system Hebrew alphabet

Language codes

ISO 639-3 aju

Judeo-Moroccan Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken by Jews living or formerly living in Morocco. The vast

majority of all current speakers now live in France and Israel. The few speakers remaining in Morocco are usually

older adults.[2]

History and composition

Historically

Widely used in the Jewish community during its long history there, the Moroccan dialect of Judeo-Arabic has manyinfluences from languages other than Arabic, including Spanish (due to the close proximity of Spain), Haketia or

Moroccan Judeo-Spanish, due to the influx of Sephardic refugees from Spain after the 1492 expulsion, and French

(due to the period in which Morocco was colonized by France), and, of course, the inclusion of many Hebrew

loanwords and phrases (a feature of all Jewish languages). The dialect has considerable mutual intelligibility with

Judeo-Tunisian Arabic, and some with Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic, but almost none with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic.

Today

The vast majority of Morocco's 265,000 Jews emigrated to Israel after 1948, with significant emigration to Europe

(mainly France) and North America as well. Although about 3,000 Jews remain in Morocco today,[3] most of the

younger generations speak French as their first language,[citation needed] rather than Arabic, and their Arabic is more

akin to Moroccan Arabic than to Judeo-Arabic. There are estimated to be 8,925 speakers in Morocco, mostly

Casablanca and Fes, and 250,000 in Israel (where speakers reported bilingualism with Hebrew). Most speakers, in

both countries, are elderly. There is a Judeo-Arabic radio program on Israeli radio.

Daily phrases in Judeo-Moroccan

Hello: lma / lma lik

Goodbye: blma / blma lik

Thanks: mersi

Yes: ywaNo: l

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How are you?: ? ibark?

Fine, thank you: , lba, mersi

Fine / No problems: lba

Notes

[1] Judeo-Moroccan Arabic reference (http://www.ethnologue. com/language/aju) atEthnologue (17th ed., 2013)[2] Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005.Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[3] http:/ /www.ejpress.org/article/58013

References

Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Arabic (http://www.jewish-languages.org/judeo-arabic.html)

Heath, Jeffrey,Jewish and Muslim dialects of Moroccan Arabic (Routledge Curzon Arabic linguistics series):

London, New York, 2002.

Stories in Judeo-Arabic by David Bensoussan (http://www.editionsdulys.com/judeacuteo-arabe.html)

External links

Reka (http://reka.iba.org.il/) Kol Israel radio station broadcasting a daily program in Judeo-Moroccan

(Mugrabian)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kol_Israelhttp://reka.iba.org.il/http://www.editionsdulys.com/judeacuteo-arabe.htmlhttp://www.jewish-languages.org/judeo-arabic.htmlhttp://www.ejpress.org/article/58013https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethnologuehttp://www.ethnologue.com/language/aju

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