Statistical Transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Texts
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Judeo-Arabic is a group of Arabic-based languages used by Jews for many centuries, which like some other Jewish languages (for example,Yiddish), is written in the Hebrew alphabet. Many of the great Jewish literary works of the Middle Ages were written in Judeo-Arabic. A large quantity of additional Judeo-Arabic text has become available with the digitization of manuscripts found in the Cairo Genizah.
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