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Judeo-Italian language


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  • Variants

    • Giudeo-Italiano language
    • Italian language--Dialects--Judeo-Italian
    • Italkian language
    • Jewish-Italian language
    • Judaeo-Italian language
    • Judaico-Romanesco language
    • Judeo-Venetian language
    • La´az language
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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Italian language--Dialects--Judeo-Italian
  • Sources

    • found: Arnold, Rafael D. Judeo-Romance varieties, 2018, via De Gruyter website, viewed Nov. 29, 2023:p. 324 (Judeo-Italian)
    • found: Jewish languages (Website), Nov. 29, 2023:Languages > Judeo-Italian (Any distinctive variety of Italian written or spoken by Jews can be called Judeo-Italian. However, there is no single variety of Judeo-Italian. Rather, there is a diverse array of Jewish dialects that can be divided into two main types. The first type, which can be called Literary Judeo-Italian, includes a relatively small, but not insignificant, corpus of Italian texts, both translations and original compositions, written in Hebrew characters, for the most part written between 1200 and 1700)
    • found: Wikipedia, Nov. 29, 2023:Judeo-Italian languages (Judeo-Italian (or Judaeo-Italian, Judæo-Italian, and other names including Italkian) is an endangered Jewish language, with only about 200 speakers in Italy and 250 total speakers today. The language is one of the Italian languages. Some words have Italian prefixes and suffixes added to Hebrew words as well as Aramaic roots; The amount of literature in Judeo-Italian is far greater than in the other Judeo-Romance dialects, with the exception of Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo/Ladino); Names of language: Judeo-Italian, with many sub-dialects (Judeo-Roman, Judeo-Venetian, Judeo-Florentine, Judeo-Livornese (also called Bagit(t)o), Judeo-Mantuan, Judeo-Piedmontese, and more). In some literature called Italkit or Italkian, but these terms are scholarly inventions that have not been widely accepted)
    • found: Orbis Latinus website, Nov. 29, 2023:Languages and dialects > Judaeo-Italian (Italkian) (Judaeo-Italian Language (Italkian); The shared lexicon peculiar to Judeo-Italian, Judeo-French, and Judeo-Provençal displays formal and semantic features that are of Romance derivation and coinage, or that otherwise belie the literary influence of medieval Latin culture (ecclesiastic, academic, juridic); medieval Judeo-Italian was a koiné, employed as a common literary vehicle. This literary usage declined by the end of the 16th century, but the koiné would survive, to some extent, in the local dialects spoken in the ghettos; Italkian, a collective term referring to Jewish Italo-Romance dialects documented from the 17th century to the present)
    • found: Manual of Judaeo-Romance linguistics and philology, 2023:p. 177 (Old Italo-Romance Jewish texts) p. 301 (Judaeo-Italian varieties in the modern era)
    • found: Ethnologue, viewed January 26, 2024:(Judeo-Italian, a language of Italy; alternate names: Italkian, Judaico-Romanesco, Judeo-Venetian, La'az, giudeo-italiano; classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian)
  • LC Classification

    • PC1784
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  • Change Notes

    • 1986-02-11: new
    • 2024-05-31: revised
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