Judaeo-Georgian
Sign in to saveAlso known as Judeo-Georgian, Gruzinic
thumb | right | alt=A chief synagogue in Tbilisi decorated with the Georgian and Israeli flags on the occasion of Georgia's Independence Day celebration. May, 2008. | A chief synagogue in Tbilisi decorated with the Georgian and Israeli flags on the occasion of Georgia's Independence Day celebration. May, 2008. Judeo-Georgian, known endonymically as ' () and also known as Gruzinic', is the traditional Georgian dialect spoken by the Georgian Jews, the ancient Jewish community of the South Caucasus nation of Georgia.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Judeo-Georgian
- Language.altname
- Gruzinic, Qivruli
- Language.states
- Georgia, Israel, Russia, Belgium, United States
- Language.date
- 2015–2018
- Language.ref
- e25
- Language.familycolor
- Caucasian
- Language.fam1
- Kartvelian
- Language.fam2
- Karto-Zan
- Language.fam3
- Georgian
- Language.script
- Georgian scriptAramaic script
- Language.iso3
- jge
- Language.glotto
- jude1258
- Language.glottorefname
- Judeo-Georgian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Jewish languages
- Country
- Georgia (country)
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 85000
- indigenous to
- Southern District
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Relationship to other languages
- Distribution
- Status
- References
- External links
thumb | right | alt=A chief synagogue in Tbilisi decorated with the Georgian and Israeli flags on the occasion of Georgia's Independence Day celebration. May, 2008. | A chief synagogue in Tbilisi decorated with the Georgian and Israeli flags on the occasion of Georgia's Independence Day celebration. May, 2008. Judeo-Georgian, known endonymically as ' () and also known as Gruzinic', is the traditional Georgian dialect spoken by the Georgian Jews, the ancient Jewish community of the South Caucasus nation of Georgia.
== History == Georgian-speaking Jews maintain one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. The most popular theory on the origins of Georgian Jewry is that the first Jews in Georgia arrived 2600 years ago after escaping Babylonian captivity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judaeo-Georgian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.