Jewish (was: constructed romance) languages
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Thursday, January 21, 1999, 19:40 |
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?
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
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)