Judaeo-Portuguese
Also known as Judeo-Portuguese, Jewish-Portuguese, Judaeo-Lusitanic, Jewish Portuguese
thumb | right | “Fountain of the Jews” in Coimbra, Portugal Judaeo-Portuguese, Jewish-Portuguese or Judaeo-Lusitanic, is an extinct Jewish language or a dialect of Galician-Portuguese written in the Hebrew alphabet that was used by the Jews of Portugal.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Judaeo-Portuguese
- Language.states
- Portugal, Netherlands, Germany (Hamburg), England, Japan, North America, Brazil
- Language.speakers2
- fewer than 2,000 users in a limited liturgical context
- 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
- Ibero-Romance
- Language.fam9
- West Iberian
Article
14 sectionsContents
- Description
- History
- Literature
- Decline
- Characteristics
- Portuguese archaisms
- Influences from Hebrew
- Influences from Judaeo-Spanish/Ladino
- Influences from Greek
- Influence on other languages
- Sample text
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb | right | “Fountain of the Jews” in Coimbra, Portugal Judaeo-Portuguese, Jewish-Portuguese or Judaeo-Lusitanic, is an extinct Jewish language or a dialect of Galician-Portuguese written in the Hebrew alphabet that was used by the Jews of Portugal.
== Description == It was the vernacular of Sephardi Jews in Portugal before the 16th century and also in many places of the Portuguese Jewish diaspora. Its texts were written in the Hebrew script (aljamiado português) or the Latin alphabet.
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Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 codeExtinct languages of EuropeExtinct Romance languagesJews and Judaism in PortugalJudeo-Romance languagesLanguage articles with unreferenced extinction dateLanguages of PortugalLanguages without Glottolog codePortuguese languagePortuguese-language dialectsSephardi Jewish culture