Judaeo-Portuguese

Judaeo-Portuguese is the generally extinct Jewish language of the Jews of Portugal.

Description

The Judaeo-Portuguese language was the vernacular of Jews in Portugal before the sixteenth century and also in many places of the Portuguese Jewish diaspora. Texts were written in Hebrew letters (aljamiado português) or in Latin script.

As Portuguese Jews intermarried with other expelled Sephardim, it influenced the Judaeo-Spanish or Ladino language. Due to close similarity to standard Portuguese, Judaeo-Portuguese died out in Portugal, surviving in the every-day usage in the diaspora until the early 19th century. It also influenced the Papiamento and Saramaccan languages.

Characteristics

Influences from Ladino

Portuguese archaisms

See also

• Ladino language
• History of the Jews in Portugal
• Spanish and Portuguese Jews
• Judaeo-Romance languages
• Mozarabic
• Jewish languages
• Yiddish language
• Haketia
• Tetuani
• Şalom
• Lusophone
• Lusophilia
• Sephardic Jews
• Lusitanic
• Judaism

References

• Judaeo-Portuguese in Jewish Language Research Center
• Thesouro dos Dinim, a Halakhic work
• Strolovitch, Devon L. (2005) Old Portuguese in Hebrew Script: Convention, Contact, and Convivência. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.