Re: Jewish (was: constructed romance) languages

John Cowan wrote:
>
> vardi wrote:
>
> > In England I once went to a lecture by a Palestinian Arab citizen of
> > Israel (his definition), who presented what was, to put it mildly, a
> > critical view of Israel.
>
> What language was the lecture given in?
>
English. It was just that in the context of his very strong attack on
the whole basis of Israel and Zionism (perfectly legitimate, of course),
I did find it somewhat incongruous that he kept using this Hebrew word.

> BTW, the current Ethnologue (http://www.sil.org/ethnologue)
> lists the following 27 Jewish languages (with country of use;
> some are extinct):
>
>     ARABIC, JUDEO-IRAQI: Israel
>     ARABIC, JUDEO-MOROCCAN: Israel
>     ARABIC, JUDEO-TRIPOLITANIAN: Israel
>     ARABIC, JUDEO-TUNISIAN: Tunisia
>     ARABIC, JUDEO-YEMENI: Israel
>     BUKHARIC: Israel
>     DZHIDI: Iran
>     HEBREW: Israel
>     HEBREW, ANCIENT: Israel
>     HULAULA: Israel
>     ISRAELI SIGN LANGUAGE: Israel
>     JUDEO-BERBER: Israel
>     JUDEO-CRIMEAN TATAR: Uzbekistan
>     JUDEO-GEORGIAN: Israel
>     JUDEO-ITALIAN: Italy
>     JUDEO-TAT: Israel
>     KARAIM: Lithuania
>     KNAANIC: Czech Republic
>     LADINO: Israel
>     LISHANA-DENI: Israel
>     LISHANAN: Israel
>     LISHANID NOSHAN: Israel
>     SHUADIT: France
>     YEVANIC: Israel
>     YIDDISH: Israel
>     YIDDISH SIGN LANGUAGE: Israel
>     ZARPHATIC: France
>
> --

Yeah, I remember looking up Israel on Ethnologue and enjoying that list.
It's all a bit arbitary, of course. I mean "Judeo-Iraqi" covers several
dialects (Baghdad, Basra...) that as far as I understand from some
friends here are quite distinct.

        Shaul