Judeo-Urdu

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Judeo-Urdu
Calcutta
EthnicityBaghdadi Jews
Era18th Century
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologjude1269
IETFur-IN-Hebr

Judeo-Urdu (

romanized: yahūd urdū; Hebrew: אורדו יהודית, romanizedūrdū 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]

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