ITK ISO 639-3
Judeo-Italian
A language of Italy
- ISO 639
- itk
- Alternate Names
- Italkian, Judaico-Romanesco, Judeo-Venetian, La‘az, giudeo-italiano
- Population
- 200 in Italy. Total users in all countries: 250.
- Location:
- Tuscany region: Siena province, Buonconvento; urban areas central and north, Rome.
- Language Status
- 8a (Moribund).
- Classification
- Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian
- Language Use
- Very few speakers are fluent (Salminen 2007). More commonly spoken 2 generations ago. Used in Passover song. Perhaps 4,000 occasionally use elements of it in their speech, about 10% of Italy’s 40,000 Jews. Shifted to Italian [ita].
- Language Development
- Dictionary. Texts.
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Judeo-Italian
- Writing
- Hebrew script [Hebr].
- Other Comments
- Jewish.
Also Spoken in
- Location
- Ionian Islands region: Kerkyra regional unit.
- Dialects
- Corfiote Italkian.
- Language Status
- 7 (Shifting)
- Other Comments
- Non-indigenous. View other languages of Greece
Language Name
Judeo-Italian
User Population
50 in Greece (Salminen 2007).
Map
Location: Tuscany region: Siena province, Buonconvento; urban areas central and north, Rome.
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