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
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        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
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