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اللهجة السورية اليهودية

Syrian Judeo-Arabic
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Community Profile: A broad representation of the world's Arabic varieties, as used by Muslims, Christians, and Jews from West Africa to Iraq, can be found across the metropolitan area — although many of them are mutually unintelligible with each other, speakers are able to communicate in the Modern Standard Arabic known as al-fuṣḥā ("the purest") and have the shared liturgical language of Classical (or Quranic) Arabic, and there is often widespread familiarity with larger varieties like Egyptian Arabic.
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he Syrian Jewish community based in Brooklyn, with a secondary hub in Deal, New Jersey, is thought to represent the single largest group of Jews from Syria in the world, estimated as having 40,000 members or more. There are distinct communities, with distinct Brooklyn synagogues, that have roots in Aleppo and Damascus. Migration began to the Lower East Side and later Williamsburg in the early 20th century, with the community now centered along Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. A last significant wave of Syrian Jews in the 1990s. The community has been characterized both by its cohesiveness and by the large number of synagogues and other institutions built in Brooklyn. Most no longer speak the distinctively Jewish form of the local Arabic of Aleppo or Damascus but have switched to English or Arabic, though significant musical and liturgical traditions are being maintained.

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