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Yevanic, otherwise known as Judeo-Greek, was the dialect of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Greece
is documented since the Hellenistic period. Its linguistic lineage stems from the Hellenistic Koine (Ελληνική Κοινή) and includes
Hebrew elements as well. It was mutually intelligible with Greek of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used Hebrew alphabet
to write Greek and Yevanic texts. The term Yevanic is an artificial creation from the Biblical word Yāwān referring to the
Greeks and the lands that the Greeks inhabited. The term is an overextension of the Greek word Ἰωνία from the (then) easternmost
Greeks to all Greeks. There are no longer any native speakers of Yevanic, for the following reasons: The assimilation of the
tiny Romaniote communities by the more numerous Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jews; The emigration of many of the Romaniotes to
the United States and Israel; The murder of many of the Romaniotes during the Holocaust; The adoption of the majority languages
through assimilation. |
Names (more)[br] Yevaneg[de] Jevanische Sprache [el] Ρωμανιώτικη διάλεκτος [en] Yevanic language [fi] Juutalaiskreikka [fr] Yévanique [gl] Grego ievánico [he] יווניטיקה [ja] ユダヤ・ギリシア語 [pl] Język jewanik [ru] Еврейско-греческий диалект [tr] Yevanik [uk] Єврейсько-грецький діалект |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : yejLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/yejhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:yej More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: yejFreebase ISO 639-3 : yej GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |