Yevanic

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Yevanic is a historical Greek dialect once spoken by the Romaniote Jews, characterized by its blend of Greek and Hebrew elements.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Yevanic canonical 1
Yevanitika 1

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek-based Jewish dialect
Jewish language
historical language
associatedWithRite Romaniote Jews
surface form: Romaniote rite
closelyRelatedTo Medieval Greek
Modern Greek
containsLexicalElementsFrom Aramaic
Hebrew
Turkish
declineCause Holocaust
assimilation into Modern Greek
emigration of Romaniote Jews
distinctFrom Judeo-Italian
Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)
surface form: Judeo-Spanish

Ladino
Yiddish
hasAlternativeName Jevanic
Judeo-Greek
Judezmo Greek
Romaniote Greek
Yevanic
surface form: Yevanitika
hasEthnicGroup Romaniote Jews
hasInfluenceFrom Aramaic
Greek
Hebrew
hasPhonologySimilarTo local Greek dialects of Romaniote regions
hasSociolinguisticRole marker of Romaniote Jewish identity
hasVocabularyDomain Jewish religious terminology
historicalStatus endangered language
nearly extinct language
languageBranch Greek
languageFamily Hellenic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
region Aegean islands
Asia Minor
Constantinople (probable)
surface form: Constantinople

Epirus
Greece
Ioannina
spokenBy Romaniote Jews
subclassOf Greek language
Judeo-Greek
timePeriod Middle Ages
Ottoman period
usedByReligiousCommunity Romaniote Jews
surface form: Romaniote Jewish communities
usedFor daily communication in Romaniote communities
religious life in Romaniote communities
usedInReligion Judaism
writingSystem Greek alphabet
Hebrew alphabet

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proto-Greek hasDescendant Yevanic
Yevanic hasAlternativeName Yevanic
this entity surface form: Yevanitika