Dialects: None known. Medium intelligibility with Judeo-Moroccan Arabic , and Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic ,, but none with Judeo-Iraqi Arabic ,. A lexicon of 5,000 words in 1950 had 79% words of Arabic origin, 15% Romance loanwords, 5% Hebrew loanwords, 2% others (Cohen 1985). A member of macrolanguage Judeo-Arabic ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 45,000 in Israel (1995 H. Mutzafi). Population total all countries: 45,500.
Language Use: Mainly older adults. Also use Hebrew [heb].
Language Development: Bible portions: 1897–1937.
Writing System: Arabic
Nation of Origin: Israel
Other Comments: Jewish.