What is Judeo-Arabic dialects?
{{Infobox language |name=Judeo-Arabic |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=[[Semitic languages|Semitic]] |fam3=[[Central Semitic languages|Central Semitic]] |fam4=[[Arabic languages|Arabic]] |script=[[Hebrew alphabet]] |iso2=jrb |iso3=jrb |lc1=yhd|ld1=[[Judeo-Iraqi Arabic]] |lc2=aju|ld2=[[Judeo-Moroccan Arabic]] |lc3=yud|ld3=[[Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic]] |lc4=ajt|ld4=[[Judeo-Tunisian Arabic]] |lc5=jye|ld5=[[Judeo-Yemeni Arabic]] }} '''Judeo-Arabic languages''' are a collection of [[Arabic language]] [[dialect|dialects]] spoken by [[Jew|Jews]] living or formerly living in Arabic-speaking [[country|countries]]. Just as with the rest of the Arab world, Arabic-speaking Jews had different dialects for the different regions where they lived. Most Judæo-Arabic dialects were written in modified forms of the [[Hebrew alphabet]], often including [[consonant]] dots from the [[Arabic alphabet]] to accommodate phonemes that did not exist in the Hebrew alphabet. In retaliation for [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]], Jews in Arab countries became subject to increasingly insufferable [[discrimination]] and [[violence]], causing virtually all of them to flee en masse to [[Israel]]. Their dialects of Arabic did not thrive in Israel, and most became extinct, replaced by the [[Modern Hebrew language]]. In the [[Middle Ages]], [[Jew]]s in the [[Islamic]] [[diaspora]] spoke a dialect of [[Arabic language|Arabic]], which they wrote in a mildly adapted [[Hebrew alphabet|Hebrew script]] (rather than using [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic script]]). This phenomenon is called '''Judaeo-Arabic''' and may be compared to both [[Judaeo-Spanish|Ladino]] (Judaeo-Spanish) and [[Yiddish]] (Judaeo-German). Some of the most important books of medieval Jewish though were originally written in Judaeo-Arabic, as well as certain halakhic works and biblical commentary. Only later were they translated into medieval scientific Hebrew so that they could be read by the [[Ashkenazic]] Jews of Europe. These include: * Saadia Gaon's ''Emunot ve-Deot'', his ''Tafsir'' (bi