Re: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part 3 :)

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Raymond A. Brown wrote:

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> I think this is a red herring.  No actual Romance lang has actually
> restored this long lost sound!  And the way 20th cent. Anglophones
> pronounce Latin is IMHO quite irrelevant.  I think Tom Weir has dealt with
> this well  :)
And I'll go along with it.  I was simply trying to come with some
possibilities for explaining its existence.

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> Finally my thanks to Adam Walker & Tom Weir for reminding me about Yevanic.
> I had come across mention of it before, but had forgotten.
There are all sorts of sites where information can be found:

http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/europe_report.html#Italkian
Gives a little about Yevanic and Italkian (Judeo-Italian), mentions a
scholar whose worked on these langs.  Basically similar to the Ethnologue
entry posted already.

http://www.sirius.com/~ovid/jewish.lang.european.html
Gives a little more info on Judeo-French, Jedeo-Provancal, Judeo_Italian,
Yevanis.  Some words (in both alphabets) as well as a couple of links.

http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/8945/kinah.html
The best page I visited: a paper on midieval Jewry in Italy, linguistic
info., texts, bibliography, etc.

Steg, you may want to visit these for some ideas.

Padraic.

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> Ray.
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