Re: Hebrew and Conlangs

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:34:18 +0100 Eamon Graham <robertg@...>
writes:
> > The main Hebrew influence was in vocabulary, and not that much of
> > it.
> 5 percent as I recall.  15% Slavic.  The rest is German with traces
> of Romance, Greek, etc...  The Romance component includes traces of
> it's pre-German Romance past (can't at the moment recall what the
> name of this language was... was it Loez?  Or is that Ladino?)
> I find Jewish languages terribly fascinating, ever since the age of
> 10 probably.
> FWIW,
> Eamon
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Lo`ez (also known as La`az) was the common name for Judeo-Romance
languages, including forms of Old French and Old Italian.  I'm pretty
sure no modern Jewish languages call themselves that name anymore.
Although according to something I read when researching the history of
Yiddish for a paper, some researchers think that La`az wasn't a
distinctive dialect of the surrounding language, but that at that time
the Jews and non-Jews spoke the same vernacular.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "dos iz nit der šteg!"