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This is a list of languages and groups of languages that developed within Jewish diaspora communities through contact with surrounding languages.

Afro-Asiatic languages

Cushitic languages

Semitic languages

Other Afro-Asiatic languages

Indo-European languages

Iranian languages

Romance languages

  • Judeo-Latin (extinct or evolved into Judeo-Romance languages)






Other Indo-European languages

Turkic languages

Kartvelian languages

Dravidian languages

(both written in local alphabets)

Uralic languages

Doubted languages

Indo-European languages

Romance languages

Baltic languages

Slavic languages

Indo-Arian languages

Armenian languages

  • Judeo-Armenian (although it was common to use Aramaic or Persian varieties among this Jewish community)

North Caucasian languages

Abkhazo-Adyghean languages

Austronesian languages

Malayo-Polinesian languages

  • Judeo-Malay (could be used in old-settled Jewish community, approximately till the 18th century)

Languages of Inscriptions/Books

There are some languages, mostly spoken by Jews as second or even third language, that could not be determined as their main communicative system. Some of them could be called languages with doubted relation to Jewish communities. Nevertheless, some of them were written or printed in Aramaic/Hebrew letters.

These languages are, e.g.: Ottoman Turkish for Sephardic, Romaniote and Kurdistani Jews of Ottoman Empire, whose main spoken languages were Judeo-Spanish, Yevanic and Judeo-Aramaic languages; Estonian, Latvian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Rumanian and Russian for Ashkenazi Yiddish-speaking communities. That was Dutch for Sephardic Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-Portuguese migrants.


There are also different languages, which could have some contacts with Jewish communities, e.g. different Celtic languages during the Roman empire period, as well as in Medieval Northern France or British Isles. It could be Old English for Jews with Judeo-Anglo-Norman spoken dialects. It could be the Laz language for hellenophones of Empire of Trebizond. It could be Azerbaijani for Jews of eastern Georgia. And it could be Abkhaz and Svan varieties for Mingrelian Jews.

But one shouldn’t confuse this languages with so-called newly-born Jewish languages, such as Jewish Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Latin American Spanish and Portuguese or English varieties in modern communities, which became the main spoken languages within diaspora.


See also

References

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  20. https://books.google.it/books?id=t3fLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA570&dq=Judeo-Swedish&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif8dSZ5oHhAhWEwMQBHR8BAiMQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Judeo-Swedish&f=false
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