Talk:Judeo-Yemeni Arabic

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How different is Judeo-Yemeni Arabic from Yemeni Arabic, and in what ways?
The article says "The language is quite different from mainstream Yemeni Arabic". No evidence is given. I did some searching and found no scholarly articles addressing this difference. Is it just lexical, or also morphological, phonological, syntactic? Does anyone have any evidence? It is odd to have this claim without a reference. FromTheVillage (talk) 03:42, 27 June 2017 (UTC)


 * As a Yemeni I can tell you there is no differences at all, people in Sana'a speak the same dialect that Jews in Sana'a speak, people in Sa'ada speak the same dialect that Jews in Sa'ada speak and so on... SharabSalam (talk) 18:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Considering that there are essentially no Jews left in Yemen (around 50 left - most having left by 1950 due to persecution, small remnant population until the 90s) - modern attestations of this language do not come from within Yemen. Judeo-Yemeni is written in Hebrew letters, to a large extent follows the local regional Arabic (and co-varies with it within Yemen) however a significant chunk of the vocabulary is Hebrew and Aramaic words. Most Yemenite Jews (when they resided in Yemen) used to be able to switch to full fledged spoken Arabic as well (without the Hebrew and Aramaic words) - however modern speakers (mainly in Israel, mainly old people who immigrated in 1950 or their children who (often partially, as a 2nd/3rd language) picked this up at home and were not exposed to Yemeni Arabic) are often unable.Icewhiz (talk) 07:43, 21 August 2018 (UTC)