Zarphatic language

Zarphatic
Judæo-French
צרפתית Tzarfatit
Native toFrance, Germany and England
EthnicityAshkenazi Jews
Extinct14th century[1]
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3zrp
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Glottologzarp1238

Zarphatic, also called Judeo-French (Zarphatic: Tzarfatit) or Western Loez,[3] 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.[4] Some have conjectured that the language influenced the development of Yiddish.[5][6]

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  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Oil". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-10-08. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  3. ^ Edzard, Alexandra B. (2021). "Judeo-French". Jewish Languages: Text specimens, grammatical, lexical, and cultural sketches. Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 557, 561–75. ISBN 978-3-447-11708-1. JSTOR j.ctv2h439g6.
  4. ^ Hillaby (2013), pp. 1, 112, 194-5.
  5. ^ Katznelson, Itzhak (2008). "Yiddish Language". Encyclopaedia iudaica.
  6. ^ Weinreich, M. (1959). History of the Yiddish Language: The Problems and Their Implications. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 103(4), 563–570. http://www.jstor.org/stable/985559