User:Dyelsey1/Language selection

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Language Preferences

Judeo-Tat

Ladino

Yevanic

Basic Language Analysis

Language Ladino Yevanic Judeo-Tat
ISO code lad yej jdt
Morphological Typology agglutinative agglutinative agglutinative
Basic Information Spoken by sephardic minorities. Based on old spanish mixed with other old Romance languages. There are about 112,000 speakers. [1] Speakers probably also know the local language and Hebrew.

It is currently listed as "Severely endangered". [2]

Used by the Romaniotes and the Karite Jews of Constantinople. There are predicted to be less than 50 speakers, all of whom either live in Turkey or Israel. [3][4]They probably also know a combination of Greek, Turkish, and Hebrew. The traditional language of the Mountain Jews in the Caucasus Mountains. There are about 80 thousand speakers.[5] Speakers most likely also speak Russian or Hebrew.

It is currently listed as "Definitely endangered".[6]

Text Availability There are a lot of texts available. There is a small number of ancient texts. There is a version of the bible in Judeo-Tat
Orthography Latin [7] Hebrew [8] Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew[9]

References

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaeo-Spanish
  2. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-374.html
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevanic_language
  4. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/yej
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Tat
  6. http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-1052.html
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaeo-Spanish
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevanic_language
  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Tat