Judaeo-Catalan
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Judaeo-Catalan (; , ), also called Catalanic or Qatalanit (; or ''''), was a presumed Jewish language spoken by the Jews in Northern Catalonia and what is today Northeastern Spain, especially in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Judaeo-Catalan
- Language.altname
- Catalanic
- Language.region
- Catalonia
- Language.ethnicity
- Catalonian Jews
- Language.extinct
- ?
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Italic
- Language.fam3
- Latino-Faliscan
- Language.fam4
- Latin
- Language.fam5
- Romance
- Language.fam6
- Italo-Western
- Language.fam7
- Western
- Language.fam8
- Gallo-Iberian?
- Language.fam9
- Gallo-Romance or Iberian Romance
- Language.fam10
- Occitano-Romance?
- Language.fam11
- Catalan
- Language.ancestor
- Old Latin
- Language.ancestor2
- Vulgar Latin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Catalan dialect
- Subclass of
- Jewish languages
- Located in
- Crown of Aragon
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- native label
- קטלאנית יהודית
- dialect of
- Catalan
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 0
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Judaeo-Catalan (; , ), also called Catalanic or Qatalanit (; or ''), was a presumed Jewish language spoken by the Jews in Northern Catalonia and what is today Northeastern Spain, especially in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands.
Linguistically, it has been described as sharing many features in common with early Judaeo-Provençal. This would be the case of the Jews living in Old Catalonia, stretching between Perpignan and Barcelona, linked with Occitania at least until the battle of Muret in 1213. Most Jewish texts in this area are written in Catalan with Hebrew characters. However, in western and southern Catalonia, Judaeo-Catalan should have been quite distinct from Judaeo-Provençal, mostly as a result of the Moorish conquest of Iberia. The golden age of Judaeo-Catalan is supposed to have been between the early 12th century and 1492, when the Jews were expelled from Spain by Alhambra Decree.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judaeo-Catalan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.