Ricerc@Sapienza

Judeo-Arabic is a religiolect that developed as a result of the great Arab-Islamic conquests
during the 7th century. This linguistic variety shares some of those features common
to Neoarabic dialects; nonetheless, it preserves its own uniqueness, such as the
almost absolute use of Hebrew characters and the occurrence of Hebrew and Aramaic
lexical and grammatical elements within the texts. The writing system of Judeo-Arabic
was affected by the socio-political changes that occurred during its development. In