Judeo-Malay | |
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Yahudi-Melayu, יאהודי-מֱלאיו | |
Native to | Malaysia |
Region | Penang |
Ethnicity | Malaysian Jews |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Hebrew | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
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]