Judeo-Malay

Judeo-Malay
Yahudi-Melayu, יאהודי-מֱלאיו
A Judeo-Malay word list from circa 1900 from a notepad belonging to Rahamim Jacob Cohen.
Native toMalaysia
RegionPenang
EthnicityMalaysian Jews
Extinct(date missing)
Hebrew
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone

Judeo-Malay (Malay: Yahudi-Melayu, Jawi: يهودي-ملايو, Hebrew: מלאית-יהודית) is a variant of the Malay language once spoken or written by the Jews of Penang, a state located in northern Peninsular Malaysia.[1][2] Judeo-Malay along with Judeo-Manado Malay, are the only known recorded Jewish languages in the Austronesian family. The surviving manuscripts of Judeo-Malay are recorded on a notepad of an Iranian Jew by the name of Rahamim Jacob Cohen that is currently kept in Microfilms of Alalay Manuscripts from the British Library's Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.[3]

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