Yevanic

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Yevanic is a historical Greek dialect once spoken by the Romaniote Jews, characterized by its blend of Greek and Hebrew elements.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Yevanic canonical 4
Yevanitika 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek-based Jewish dialect ⓘ
Jewish language ⓘ
historical language ⓘ
associatedWithRite Romaniote rite ⓘ
linked to: Romaniote Jews
closelyRelatedTo Medieval Greek ⓘ
Modern Greek ⓘ
containsLexicalElementsFrom Aramaic ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
Turkish ⓘ
declineCause Holocaust ⓘ
assimilation into Modern Greek ⓘ
emigration of Romaniote Jews ⓘ
distinctFrom Judeo-Italian ⓘ
Judeo-Spanish ⓘ
Ladino ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Jevanic ⓘ
Judeo-Greek ⓘ
Judezmo Greek ⓘ
Romaniote Greek ⓘ
Yevanitika ⓘ
linked to: Yevanic
hasEthnicGroup Romaniote Jews ⓘ
hasInfluenceFrom Aramaic ⓘ
Greek ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
hasPhonologySimilarTo local Greek dialects of Romaniote regions ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticRole marker of Romaniote Jewish identity ⓘ
hasVocabularyDomain Jewish religious terminology ⓘ
historicalStatus endangered language ⓘ
nearly extinct language ⓘ
languageBranch Greek ⓘ
languageFamily Hellenic languages ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
region Aegean islands ⓘ
Asia Minor ⓘ
Constantinople ⓘ
Epirus ⓘ
Greece ⓘ
Ioannina ⓘ
spokenBy Romaniote Jews ⓘ
subclassOf Greek language ⓘ
Judeo-Greek ⓘ
timePeriod Middle Ages ⓘ
Ottoman period ⓘ
usedByReligiousCommunity Romaniote Jewish communities ⓘ
linked to: Romaniote Jews
usedFor daily communication in Romaniote communities ⓘ
religious life in Romaniote communities ⓘ
usedInReligion Judaism ⓘ
writingSystem Greek alphabet ⓘ
Hebrew alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proto-Greek → hasDescendant → Yevanic ⓘ
Yevanic → hasAlternativeName → Yevanitika ⓘ
linked to: Yevanic
Judeo-Greek → alternativeName → Yevanic ⓘ
Jevanic → alternativeName → Yevanic ⓘ