Judeo-Latin

Judeo-Latin
Judeo-Latin, Laaz or ebraico-Latino is a presumed Jewish language for many scattered Jewish communities of the former Roman Empire, but especially by the Jewish communities of the Italian Peninsula and Transalpine Gaul. "La`az" () is Hebrew for "foreign language" (i.e., specifically, "non-Hebrew language"), and in the Middle Ages started to refer to Latin or Romance languages. It has been posited that Judeo-Latin is the predecessor of all the Judaeo-Romance languages,[1] although strong phonological evidence for this link is found primarily in Shuadit (Judeo-Provenal)[citation needed]. This theory holds that Shuadit and Zarphatic grew out of two variants of Laaz ha-Marav (western Judeo-Latin) and that Judeo-Italian grew out of Laaz ha-Darom (southern Judeo-Latin). The relationship to Catalanic, Ladino and Judo-Portuguese is much more tenuous.[citation needed]

Corpus
There is not much extant record for the Judeo-Latin language. Leo Levi found some hebraisms a few epigraphs in Italy[2] Other possible source for Judeo-Latin are loanwords in other languages, like in Sardinian cenabura [ken'abura] 'Friday' (from Latin cena pura) and caputanni, 'September', a literal translation of Rosh Ha-Shanah. Judeo-Latin likely influenced not only the Judeo-Romance languages, but also the Yiddish language and Rotwelsch, through its posited daughter languages, Judeo-Italian, Shuadit and Zarphatic.

Related languages
The historical relationships between the various Judeo-Romance languages is subject to debate, and are only tenuously demonstrable at best. These languages include: Catalanic (Judeo-Catalan) Judeo-Italian Judeo-Aragonese Judeo-Portuguese Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Shuadit (Judeo-Provenal) Zarphatic (Judeo-French)

[1] *Blondheim, D. S. 1927. Pomes judo-franais du Moyen Age. Paris: Champion WEINREICH, Max (1956). The Jewish languages of Romance stock and their relation to earliest Yiddish. RPh 9: 403-428. [2] Leo Levi, "Ricerca di epigrafia ebraica nell'Italia meridionale," La Rassegna mensile di Israel, vol. 28 (1962), pp. 152-153

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