Re: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part 2)

Adam Walker wrote:

> >(Thought: it might be interesting for some conlanger to "discover" a
> >surviving Greek-based Jewish language :)
>
> There already is such a natlang -- Yevanic.
You're right -- I was a little surprised it's still around (barely, and maybe).
According to the Ethnologue:

YEVANIC (JUDEO-GREEK, YEVANITIKA) [YEJ] 35 possibly in Israel;
15 in USA (1971 David Gold). There were few semi-speakers left in 1987,
and may be none now. There may be a handful of elderly speakers still in
Turkey. Indo-European, Greek, Attic. Jews gave it up in Rome by 4th century,
Spain by 6-7th centuries, Crimea by 8th century. After 1000 A.D. almost
entirely in Greece, some in the Balkans (Wexler 1985). Jewish. Nearly extinct.

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