Re: Jewish (was: constructed romance) languages
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 21, 1999, 21:07 |
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:40:23 -0500 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
>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
I have no idea where this name comes from...do you know?
> ISRAELI SIGN LANGUAGE: Israel
> JUDEO-BERBER: Israel
> JUDEO-CRIMEAN TATAR: Uzbekistan
> JUDEO-GEORGIAN: Israel
> JUDEO-ITALIAN: Italy
> JUDEO-TAT: Israel
> KARAIM: Lithuania
The Qara'im (Karaites) are a Jewish sect somewhat similar to the old
Sadducees....do you know if this is the Karaite language that is supposed
to be descended from the language of the Khazars?
> KNAANIC: Czech Republic
Kena`an (Canaan) was an old name for Eastern Europe.
> LADINO: Israel
> LISHANA-DENI: Israel
> LISHANAN: Israel
> LISHANID NOSHAN: Israel
I just think all these "lishan..." language names sound very cool :) .
> SHUADIT: France
My "history of Hebrew" book says that Chuadit ( << Yehudit, "Jewish") has
some very unusual sound shifts, such as /s/ >> /f/, as in _sus_ (horse)
/fuf/, and the /j/ >> /S/ change found in the name of the language
itself.
> YEVANIC: Israel
Judeo-Greek? (Yavan = Greece)
> YIDDISH: Israel
> YIDDISH SIGN LANGUAGE: Israel
> ZARPHATIC: France
Tzarfat = France, in Hebrew.
-Stephen (Steg)
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