Variety of Judeo-Arabic spoken in Ottoman Palestine
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
^ "Judeo-Arabic" . Jewish Languages . Retrieved 2024-01-25 .
^ 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
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