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thumb|right|250px|A page from a Haggadah|Haggada shel Pesah in Judaeo-Marathi which was printed in Mumbai in 1890.

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  • Phonology
  • Consonants
  • Labial Consonants
  • Dental Consonants
  • Back Consonants
  • See also
  • References

thumb|right|250px|A page from a Haggadah|Haggada shel Pesah in Judaeo-Marathi which was printed in Mumbai in 1890.

Judeo-Marathi (Marathi: जुदाव मराठी), also known as Bene Israel Marathi, is a variety of Marathi spoken by the Bene Israel, a Jewish ethnic group in Maharashtra. There is no evidence that Judeo-Marathi substantially differed from other forms of Marathi. However, there are several manuscripts of Jewish texts written in Marathi using Devanagari or Hebrew script. For instance, a Haggadah from 1911 contains Hebrew written in Devanagari, and a prayer book with instructions in Marathi written in the Hebrew script. In 2011, a Marathi-Hebrew text titled Poona Haggadah, was found in Salford. The 137-year-old book, which was used by the Bene-Israel community, was discovered by historian Yaakov Wise.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judæo-Marathi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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