Judaeo-Catalan

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Judaeo-Catalan
Catalanic
קטלאנית יהודית
RegionCatalonia
EthnicityCatalonian Jews
Extinct(date missing)
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone

Judaeo-Catalan (

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

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
.

However, the very existence of the Judeo-Catalan is debated. While authors like Paul Wexler defend its existence,[2] it is usually understood that "the evidence of its existence is scarce, although texts are known that mix Catalan and Hebrew, and the subject is rather controversial".[3]

In one of the few investigations on the subject, Feliu and Ferrer (2011) analyzed a set of notarial texts of 1443, and concluded that their analysis "allows us to sign the death certificate of a linguistic ghost – the supposed 'Judeo-Catalan dialect' that never was".[4] Another subsequent study of some songs from the same period suggests the existence of a "linguistic repertoire of the Jews of medieval Catalonia", although it does not prove the existence of a dialect proper.[5]

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References

  1. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Glottolog 4.8 - Shifted Western Romance". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2023-11-27. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
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  3. ^ Argenter (2013), p. 148–149
  4. ^ Feliu & Ferrer (2011), p. 59
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