Judeo-Urdu (Urdu: یہود اردو, romanized: yahūd urdū; Hebrew: אורדו יהודית, romanized: ūrdū yehūdīt)[1] was a dialect of the Urdu language spoken by the Baghdadi Jews in the Indian subcontinent living in the areas of Mumbai and Kolkata towards the end of the 18th century.

It is a dialect that was written in the Hebrew script and found to be used for several pieces of literature, such as Inder Sabha, a copy of which is kept at the British Library.

[2] The orthography is one of the primary reasons for this dialect being associated with Urdu, rather than Hindi, as the spelling of lemmas found in literature written in the Judeo-Urdu dialect seem to correlate with the Perso-Arab spelling.

Rather, alveolar consonants were also used to represent these sounds paired with a Dagesh or Holam.

[2] (ūṉṭ) (ūnṭ) (gámál) (bakrī) (bakrī) ('ēz) (patthar) (pattʰar) (évén) (gadhā) (gadʱā) (ḥämōr) (jānvar) (janāvar)[note 1] (bhemáh) (čūhā) (čawā)[note 2] ('aḵbár) (ḥalq) (ḥálaq) (gárōn) (kuttā) (kūttā) (kélév) (lakṛī) (lakrī) ('ēṣ) (murḡī) (mūrġī) (tarngolét)