Judeo-Iraqi Arabic ( ar, عربية يهودية عراقية), also known as Iraqi Judeo-Arabic and Yahudic, is a variety of

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spoken by

Iraqi Jews The history of the Jews in Iraq ( he, יְהוּדִים בָּבְלִים, ', ; ar, اليهود العراقيون, ) is documented from the time of the Babylonian captivity c. 586 BC. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world's oldest and mos ...

currently or formerly living in

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. It is estimated that there are speakers in Israel (as of 2018) and that just 120 older speakers remain in Iraq (as of 1992). The best known variety is

Baghdad Jewish Arabic Baghdad Jewish Arabic ( ar, عربية يهودية بغدادية, ) or autonym haki mal yihud (Jewish Speech) or el-haki malna (our speech) is the Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Baghdad and other towns of Southern Iraq. This dialect d ...

, although there were different dialects in Mosul and elsewhere. The vast majority of Iraqi Jews have relocated to Israel and have

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to using Hebrew as their home language. The 2014 film '' Farewell Baghdad'' is performed mostly in

, the first time a movie has been filmed in Judeo-Iraqi Arabic.

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