Judeo-Italian
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A language of Italy
Alternate Names
Italkian, Judaico-Romanesco, Judeo-Venetian, La‘az, giudeo-italiano
User Population
200 in Italy. Total users in all countries: 250.
Location
Tuscany region: Siena province, Buonconvento; urban areas central and north, Rome.
Language Status
8a (Moribund).
Language Use
Very few speakers are fluent (Salminen 2007). More commonly spoken 2 generations ago. Used in Passover song. Perhaps 4,000 occasionally use elements of it in their speech, about 10% of Italy’s 40,000 Jews. Shifted to Italian [ita].
Language Development
Dictionary. Texts.
Jewish.