Judeo-Italian dialects

"Corfiot Italkian" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Corfiot Italians, the ethnic minority of Italians in Corfu.
Judeo-Italian
ג'יודו-איטאליאנו‎ giudeo-italiano
Pronunciation[dʒuˌdɛoitaˈljaːno], [(ʔ)italˈkit]
RegionItaly
Israel
EthnicityItalian Jews
Native speakers
200 in Italy, 250 in total (2022)[1]
Very few speakers are fluent as of 2007[1]
Dialects
Hebrew alphabet 10th-18th centuries Italian Alphabet 19th century onwards
Language codes
ISO 639-3itk
Glottologjude1255
ELPJudeo-Italian
Linguasphere& -bf 51-AAB-be & -bf
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Judeo-Italian (or Judaeo-Italian, Judæo-Italian, and other names including Italkian) is a groups of endangered and extinct Jewish dialects, with only about 200 speakers in Italy and 250 total speakers today.[2] The dialects are one of the Italian languages and are a subgrouping of the Judeo-Romance Languages.[3] Some words have Italian prefixes and suffixes added to Hebrew words as well as Aramaic roots.[4] All of the dialects except Judeo-Roman are now extinct.[5]

  1. ^ a b Judeo-Italian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "A language of Italy". Ethnologue. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  3. ^ Jochnowitz, George. "Judeo-Italian: Italian Dialect or Jewish Language?". George Jochnowitz. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. ^ Waldman, Nahum (1989). The Recent Study of Hebrew. Hebrew Union College Press: 1989 Hebrew Union College. pp. 174–175. ISBN 0-87820-908-5.
  5. ^ "Judeo-Italian: Italian Dialect or Jewish Language?". www.jochnowitz.net. Retrieved 2023-12-09.