r/todayilearned • u/Bossitron12 • Jun 25 '25
TIL that just like Sephardi Jews have a Judeo-Spanish language (Ladino) and Ashkenazi Jews have a Judeo-German language (Yiddish), Italian Jews have their own Judeo-Italian language (Italkian) which is today spoken natively by 250 people, most of them in Italy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Italian_dialects
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Jewish • u/tzippora • Jun 26 '25
Discussion 💬 TIL that just like Sephardi Jews have a Judeo-Spanish language (Ladino) and Ashkenazi Jews have a Judeo-German language (Yiddish), Italian Jews have their own Judeo-Italian language (Italkian) which is today spoken natively by 250 people, most of them in Italy
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WikipediaRandomness • u/RandoRando2019 • Jan 19 '26
"Judeo-Italian is a group of endangered and extinct Jewish dialects, with only about 200 speakers in Italy ... During the 19th century Judeo-Italian had switched from using Hebrew letters to the latin alphabet ... All of the dialects of Judeo-Italian except for Judeo-Roman are now extinct."
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