Jewish Languages

By William Brinner

Yiddish

Turkish

Persian

Turkish

Arvit

Aramaic I

Aramaic II

Tajik (Persian)

Hebrew

Aramaic III

Ladino

The lines above say "Our Languages" in several Jewish languages. Yet first we will probably have to justify the very use. Are there "Muslim languages?" , "Christian languages?"

Major Jewish Languages:

Middle Eastern

Hebrew
- Periodization
  - Early (pre-Biblical) Hebrew
  - Judean (Biblical and Mishnaic) Hebrew
  - Scholarly (Rabbinic and Medieval) Hebrew
  - Israeli (Modern Literary and Spoken) Hebrew; Revival
- The influence of Hebrew on Jewish Languages
Aramaic
- The rise and spread of a lingua franca - Jewish and non-Jewish Aramaic, Syriac
- Eastern and Western Aramaic
- Aramaic in the Tanakh, Targum, Talmud, Siddur, later use
- Modern Aramaic (Swedaya, Jabali) -- Present status
Arvit "Judeo-Arabic" (Berberit)
- Eastern and Western -- Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, North Africa
- Literary use and spoken -- Present status
Parsic "Judeo-Persian"
- Iranian, Bukharan -- Present status
- Tajik
- Dagh Chufut
Karaimic
- Karay, Chaltay
Krimchak "Judeo-Turkish/Tatar" -- Present status
Other non-European Jewish languages: "Judeo-Berber" -- Present status

European

Yiddish
- The rise and spread - Loter, Ashkenazi
- Western and Eastern Yiddish
  - North, Northeast, Southeast
  - Modern literary -- Present status
- Some basic ideas: Max Weinreich and the concept of "fusion" languages
- Role of '' _ Derekh ha-Shas and Yiddishkeit.
Jewish Romance Languages -- La'az.
Yevanic "Judeo-Greek" (Romaniot)
Gruzinic "Judeo-Georgian"