Algerian Jewish Sign Language (AJSL), also known as Ghardaia Sign Language, is a moribund village sign language originally of Ghardaïa, Algeria that is...
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Jewish languages are the various languages and dialects that developed in Jewish communities in the diaspora. The original Jewish language is Hebrew, supplanted...
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perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...
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Russian Sign Language, used by the immigrant community and several village sign languages, Ghardaia Sign Language, AKA Algerian Jewish Sign Language Al-Sayyid...
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languages are those varieties of Aramaic and Neo-Aramaic languages used by Jewish communities. Aramaic, like Hebrew, is a Northwest Semitic language,...
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Sandler, Wendy (2013). A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language. "Basic Law: Israel – the Nation State of the Jewish People" (PDF). The Knesset...
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Bukharian (Judeo-Tajik dialect) (redirect from Jewish-Tajik language)
Bukharian Jewish clubs and 28 Bukharian Jewish red teahouses in Uzbekistan existed. However, in 1938, Bukharian was no longer used as the language for instruction...
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Kayla Qwara Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Algerian Arabic Judeo-Andalusi Arabic † Judeo-Egyptian Arabic Judeo-Iraqi Arabic Jewish Baghdadi Arabic Judeo-Levantine...
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Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called Neo-Aramaic or Judeo-Aramaic. It was originally spoken in three villages near...
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survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel". In Zeshan, Ulrike; de Vos, Connie (eds.). Sign Languages in Village...
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Judeo-Arabic (redirect from Arabic Jewish)
related ethnolects or religiolects within the branches of the Arabic language used by Jewish communities. Judeo-Arabic is a mixed form of Arabic, in its formal...
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as a name for the city of Sarepta, in Phoenicia. Unlike most other Jewish languages which had many loan words from Hebrew, it had relatively few. This...
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Jewish Palestinian Aramaic, was a Western Aramaic language spoken by the Jews during the Classic Era in Judea and the Levant, specifically in Hasmonean...
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again). This cluster of languages can be split into a few categories based upon location and religion (Christian or Jewish). The Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect...
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Sephardi Hebrew (redirect from Sephardic Hebrew language)
liturgical use by Sephardi Jews. Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Spanish and Portuguese, Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino), Judeo-Arabic...
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Jewish English is a cover term for varieties of the English language spoken by Jews. They may include significant amounts of vocabulary and syntax taken...
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Aramaic alphabet Aramaic language Jewish languages Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Syriac language Syriac-Aramaic "Inter-Zab Jewish Neo-Aramaic". Ethnologue. Retrieved...
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Biblical Aramaic (redirect from Chaldean language (misnomer))
Aramaic became the main language of public life and administration. Darius the Great declared Imperial Aramaic to be the official language of the western half...
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Judeo-Tat (redirect from Jewish Tat language)
Indo-European languages, albeit with heavy influence from Hebrew. The words Juhuri and Juhuro translate as "Jewish" and "Jews". The Iranic Tat language is spoken...
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Dzhagatay) is a moribund Turkic language spoken in Crimea by the Krymchak people. The Krymchak community was composed of Jewish immigrants who arrived from...
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Judaeo-Romance languages are Jewish languages derived from Romance languages, spoken by various Jewish communities (and their descendants) originating...
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Geʽez (redirect from Geez language)
South Semitic language. The language originates from what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea. Today, Geʽez is used as the main liturgical language of the Ethiopian...
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Judeo-Shirazi (redirect from Judeo-Shirazi language)
estimate has dwindled to less than 200. Like speakers of other Jewish-Iranian languages, many Judeo-Shirazi speakers immigrated to Israel or North America...
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Jewish Neo-Aramaic Jewish languages Neuman, Yishai (2019). "Categorical Shifts of the Idiom Ribono shel(a)olam: From a Tannaitic Vocative to a Jewish...
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Schegoleva 2011. Wexler, Paul (1983). "Is Karaite a Jewish language?". Mediterranean Language Review. 1: 27–54. JSTOR 10.13173/medilangrevi.1.1983.0027...
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Modern Hebrew (redirect from Israeli Hebrew language)
language. By the late 19th century, Russian-Jewish linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda had begun a popular movement to revive Hebrew as an everyday language,...
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Lachoudisch (category Jewish languages)
century, as several Jewish citizens found it convenient to trade secrets in a language non-Jews could not understand. The language spread within the community...
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Judaeo-Georgian (redirect from Judæo-Georgian language)
Judaeo-Georgian is the only Kartvelian Jewish dialect. Its status as a distinct language from the Georgian language is the subject of some debate. With the...
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Judeo-Hamedani–Borujerdi (redirect from Judæo-Hamedani language)
"old language". Though not Hebrew, the term ebri is used to distinguish Judeo-Hamadani from Persian. In 1920, Hamadan had around 13,000 Jewish residents...
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Judeo-Latin (category Judeo-Romance languages)
existence of such a Jewish language under the Roman Empire is pure conjecture. The Judeo-Latin corpus consists of an Anglo-Jewish charter and Latin quotations...
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