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Zarphatic | |
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Judæo-French | |
צרפתית Tzarfatit | |
Native to | France, Germany and England |
Ethnicity | Ashkenazi Jews |
Extinct | 14th century[1] |
Early forms | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zrp |
zrp.html | |
Glottolog | zarp1238 |
Zarphatic, or Judeo-French (Zarphatic: Tzarfatit), is an extinct Jewish language that was spoken by the French Jews of northern France and in parts of west-central Germany, such as Mainz, Frankfurt am Main and Aix-la-Chapelle. It was also spoken by French Jews who moved to Norman England.[3] Some have conjectured that the language influenced the development of Yiddish.[4]