Judeo-Egyptian Arabic

Judeo-Egyptian Arabic is an Arabic dialect spoken by Egyptian Jews. It is close to the dialect of Alexandria, even for speakers in Cairo. For example, in Cairene Arabic, "I write" is baktib. In Egyptian Judeo-Arabic, in western Alexandrian Arabic and in the Maghrebi Arabic dialects (Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian) it is nektob, resembling a first person plural.[1]

Judeo-Egyptian Arabic
Native toEgypt
Arabic alphabet
Hebrew alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone
ELPJudeo-Egyptian Arabic

Notes

  1. Blau, Joshua, The Emergence and Linguistic Background of Judaeo-Arabic: OUP, last edition 1999


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