Also carried in the speech of post-1948 Mizrahi immigrants from Arabic-speaking communities.
All languagesendangered
LANGUAGE RECORD
Judeo-Arabic
The Arabic of Jewish daily life, philosophy, and poetry from Baghdad to Fez — written in Hebrew letters; the language of Saadia Gaon’s Tafsir, Maimonides’ Guide, and most of the Cairo Geniza.
- Family
- Afro-Asiatic > Semitic > Central Semitic > Arabic
- Script
- Hebrew characters (written tradition); spoken dialects largely unwritten.
- Vitality record
- approaching extinction (JLP) — aging speaker population
A language, not a dialect. The record identifies Judeo-Arabic through its own family, grammar, literature, and history.
DOCUMENTED GEOGRAPHY
Places linked to Judeo-Arabic in the canon.
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WORDS AND INFLUENCE NOTES
Words connected to Judeo-Arabic.
Indexed words belong to this language record. Influence notes are a separate relationship and appear only where a word’s etymology names Judeo-Arabic directly.
Indexed under Judeo-Arabic
0 recordsNo words are indexed under this language in the current canon.
Named in other word histories
3 notesCarried by post-1948 Mizrahi immigrants from Arabic-speaking communities into general Israeli slang.
Judeo-Arabic kumpāra — the same endearment pathway (JEL-documented).
PERIODS IN THE RECORD
Judeo-Arabic through the era journey.
Language periods and Atlas eras are separate editorial records. The links below show every era whose date range overlaps a language period.
Early and Classical Judeo-Arabic (Gaonic era; Saadia, d. 942)
800–1300
Regional vernaculars (Iraqi, Egyptian, Syrian, Maghrebi, Yemenite)
1300–1948
Post-migration rupture and postvernacular memory
1948–present