FACT CHECK · JEWS FROM ARAB LANDS
Claim: Kurdish Jews spoke Aramaic until they moved to Israel
TRUETHE ANSWER
Jewish Neo-Aramaic was spoken by Kurdish Jews until the 1950-51 move to Israel. The older generation still speaks it.
SOURCE
Jewish Languages Project: Jewish Aramaic
jewishlanguages.org
jewishlanguages.org
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