Syrian Jews
The Syrian pronunciation of Hebrew is similar to that of other Mizrahi communities and is influenced both by Sephardi Hebrew and by the Syrian dialect of Levantine Arabic. The Syrian pronunciation of Hebrew is less archaic than the Iraqi Hebrew of Iraqi Jews and closer to standard Sephardic Hebrew. That affects especially the interdentals. Nevertheless, Syrian and Iraqi Hebrew are very closely related because of their location and geographic proximity, as is the case with most eastern Jewish communities in the Arabic world other than Yemenite Jews. Particular features are as follows:The retention of distinct emphatic sounds such as and differentiates Syrian pronunciation from many other Sephardic/Mizrahi pronunciations, which have failed to maintain these phonemic or phonological distinctions, such as between and .
Moab
Most of our knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele, which is the only known extensive text in this language. In addition there are the three line El-Kerak Inscription and a few seals. The main features distinguishing Moabite from fellow Canaanite languages such as Hebrew are: a plural in "-în" rather than "-îm" (e.g. "mlkn" "kings" for Biblical Hebrew "məlākîm"), like Aramaic and Arabic; retention of the feminine ending "-at" or "-ah" which Biblical Hebrew reduces to "-āh" only (e.g. "qiryat" or "qiryah" "town", Biblical Hebrew "qiryāh") but retains in the construct state nominal form (e.g."qiryát yisrael" "town of Israel"); and retention of a verb form with infixed "-t-", also found in Arabic and Akkadian ("w-’ltḥm" "I began to fight", from the root "lḥm".)