Judeo-Berber language

Judeo-Berber
Judeo-Shilha
Region	Israel, France
Native speakers	200 (2023)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Berber Northern Atlas Shilha Judeo-Berber
Writing system	Hebrew alphabet (generally not written)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jbe
Glottolog	(insufficiently attested or not a distinct language) jude1262
Map of Judeo Berber speaking communities in the first half of the 20th century

Judeo-Berber also known as Judeo-Amazigh, Judeo-Tamazigh, and Jewish Amazigh (Berber languages: ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ⵏ ⵡⵓⴷⴰⵢⵏ tamazight n wudayen, Hebrew: ברברית יהודית‎ berberit yehudit) is any of several hybrid Berber dialects traditionally spoken as a second language in Berber Jewish communities of central and southern Morocco, and perhaps earlier in Algeria. Judeo-Berber is a contact language; the first language of speakers was Judeo-Arabic.^[1] Speakers immigrated to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s. While mutually comprehensible with the Tamazight spoken by most inhabitants of the area (Galand-Pernet et al. 1970:14), these varieties are distinguished by the use of Hebrew loanwords and the pronunciation of š as s as seen in Judeo-Moroccan Arabic.