Judeo-Urdu
Judeo-Urdu | |
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Calcutta | |
Ethnicity | Baghdadi Jews |
Era | 18th Century |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | jude1269 |
IETF | ur-IN-Hebr |
Judeo-Urdu (
romanized: yahūd urdū; Hebrew: אורדו יהודית, romanized: ūrdū yehūdīt)[1] was a dialect of the Hindustani language spoken by the Baghdadi Jews in the Indian subcontinent living in the areas of Mumbai and Kolkata towards the end of the 18th century .It is a dialect that was written in the Hebrew script and found to be utilized for several pieces of literature, such as Inder Sabha ,a copy of which is kept at the British Library
.
Orthography
The Judeo-Urdu dialect was written in the
ט, a pattern which is consistent with other loanwords
and loan-letters.
However, when it comes to the representation of sounds found in
Hebrew letters. Rather, alveolar consonants were also used to represent these sounds, as well as aspirated consonants. This could create ambiguity as some letters, like Dalet, could denote up to four different phonemes, while an unvocalised Gimel, could denote potentially up to five.[2]
See also
References
- SSRN 3993268.
- ^ ISBN 9781463237349.