Yevanic language

Yevanic, otherwise known as Romaniote and Judeo-Greek, was the dialect of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Greece is documented since the Hellenistic period. Its linguistic lineage stems from the Hellenistic Koine (Ελληνική Κοινή) and includes Hebrew elements as well. It was mutually intelligible with Greek of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used their version o ...

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The earliest reference to a Greek Jew is in an inscription, dated c. 300-250 BCE found in Oropos, a small coastal town between Athens and Boeotia, and refers to him as "Moschos, son of Moschion the Jew" who may have been a slave. The Romaniotes are Greek Jews, distinct from both Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Jews have lived in Greece possibly as early as the Babylonian exile, and certainly had established communities in major Greek cities by the time of Jesus. A Romaniote oral tradition traces the first Jews to arrive in Ioannina s ...

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Romaniotes, Romaniotes - History, Romaniotes - World War II and the Jewish Holocaust, Romaniotes - Present Day, Romaniotes - Kehila Kedosha Yashan Synagogue, Romaniotes - Famous Jews in Greece

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Today a small number of Romaniotes live in Greece, mainly in Yannena (Ioannina), in Israel and the U.S.A. (mainly New York). Greek Jews historically tended to follow the Jerusalem Talmud instead of the Babylonian Talmud, and developed their own Minhag and their own Greek-Hebrew language, called Yevanic - a term that originates from the 'Ionian' Greeks. There are approximately 4,500 to 6,000 Jews living in Greece today, both from the Romaniotes and the Sephardi subgroups ...

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Romaniotes, Romaniotes - History, Romaniotes - World War II and the Jewish Holocaust, Romaniotes - Present Day, Romaniotes - Kehila Kedosha Yashan Synagogue, Romaniotes - Famous Jews in Greece

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During World War II, when Greece was occupied by the Axis, 86% of the Greek Jews, especially those in the areas occupied by Nazi Germany and Bulgaria, were murdered despite efforts by the Greek Orthodox Church and many Christian Greeks to shelter Jews. Although the Germans and Bulgarians deported a great number of Greek Jews, many were hidden by their Greek neighbours. Despite this though, roughly ...

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Romaniotes, Romaniotes - History, Romaniotes - World War II and the Jewish Holocaust, Romaniotes - Present Day, Romaniotes - Kehila Kedosha Yashan Synagogue, Romaniotes - Famous Jews in Greece

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Only some major languages are listed here. See List of languages by name: Z for about 50 more. Záparo (Saparoan) Zapotec (Oto-Manguean) Zazaki (Iranian) Zenzontepec (Oto-Manguean) Zhuang Zoque (Mixe-Zoquean) Zulu (Niger-Congo) Zuni Zway ...

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Waddar Wakhi (Iranian) Walloon (Romance) Waneci Wapishana Waray-Waray Washo Welsh (Celtic) West Yurghur Western Neo-Aramaic (Semitic) Weyto Wolof Wotapuri-katarqalai Wu (Chinese) ...

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/Xam Xhosa Xiang, (Hunanese) or (Hsiang) Xibe !Xóõ !Xu (!Kung) (Khoisan) ...

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Yaaku language Yaeyama language Yakut Yankunytjatjara language Yanomami Yanyuwa language Yapese Yaqui language Yauma language Yazdi (Iranian) Yemenite Hebrew language (Semitic) Yeni language Yevanic language Yi language Yiddish (Germanic) Yokutsan languages Yonaguni language Yorùbá language Yucatec Maya language Yucatec Maya Sign Language Yuch ...

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