Judeo-Venetian dialect

Judeo-Venetian
Judeo-Venetian
Giudeo-Veneziano
Region	Venice
Ethnicity	Venetian Jews
Extinct	20th century
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latinic Romance Italo-Western (disputed) Venetian Judeo-Venetian; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Hebrew Alphabet, Latin Alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
Linguasphere	51-AAB-be

Judeo-Venetian, also known as Giudeo-Veneziano, was a dialect of the Venetian language spoken by the Jewish community of Venice.

History

Judeo-Venetian was formed as Jews in Venice began speaking their own Venetian dialect due to isolation from the general populace in the Venetian ghetto and influence from Hebrew. The language became extinct at some point in the 20th century.^[1]

Features

Judeo Venetian was relatively similar to wider Venetian but did contain minor morphology differences. The 1st-person plural possessive pronoun is mie, not me. The 2nd- and 3rd-person singular endings match.^[2]

There was, however, a more significant difference in lexicon. Judeo-Venetian preserved archaisms and included Hebrew and Ladino loanwords.^[2]

Judeo Venetian	Judeo-Spanish	Hebrew	English
Zè meio lassarlo perder, nunca per lù	nunca per lù!’; No staghe badar, el zé un camèa	N/A	Don’t bother, he is a big liar
cól ʿorèr leminò	N/A	כל ערב למינו	every raven after his kind
Adonài sefatài tiftàh	N/A	אדני שפתי תפתח	Oh my goodness/he/she has cracked all the eggs

Sample text

Judeo-Venetian^[2]	English^[2]
Gò magnà i menusami de oca, boni, ma i me zè restai sul stomego	I have eaten goose giblets, tasty, but they remained on my stomach

Sources

↑ Siporin, Steve (2001-10-24). "Venice and the Jews". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
1 2 3 4 "Modern Judeo-Italian in the Light of Italian Dialectology and Jewish Interlinguistics through Three Case Studies: Judeo-Mantuan, Judeo-Venetian, and Judeo-Livornese". Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective: 135–136. 2018 – via Academia.edu.

[1] Siporin, Steve (2001-10-24). "Venice and the Jews". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-09-30.

[:0-2] 1 2 3 4 "Modern Judeo-Italian in the Light of Italian Dialectology and Jewish Interlinguistics through Three Case Studies: Judeo-Mantuan, Judeo-Venetian, and Judeo-Livornese". Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective: 135–136. 2018 – via Academia.edu.

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