Editing Yevanic language (section)

{{Short description|Endangered Greek dialect}}
{{Infobox language
|name          = Yevanic
|altname       = Romaniyot, Judaeo-Greek
|nativename    = {{script|Hebr|יעואני גלוסא}}, {{lang|yej-Grek|γεβανί γλώσσα}} {{Transliteration|yej|yevani glosa}}
|pronunciation = 
|states        = Originally [[Greece]], recently Israel, [[Turkey]], United States
|region        = 
|speakers      = "A few semi-speakers left in 1987 [in Israel], and may be none now [as of 1996 or earlier]. There may be a handful of elderly speakers still in Turkey."<!--the 15 in Turkey Eth.18 match a 1971 figure from the USA in Eth.12; the possibly 35 in Israel date from at least Eth.12-->
|date          = NA
|ref           = e13<!--Quote not in e12.-->
|familycolor   = Indo-European
|fam2          = [[Hellenic languages|Hellenic]]
|fam3          = [[Greek language|Greek]]
|fam4          = (disputed) 
|fam5          = [[Attic Greek|Attic]]–[[Ionic Greek|Ionic]]
|fam6          = [[Attic Greek|Attic]]
|fam7          = [[Koine Greek|Koine]]
|script        = [[Hebrew alphabet]]
|iso3          = yej
|linglist      = yej
|lingua        = 56-AAA-am
|glotto        = yeva1238
|glottorefname= Yevanic
}}

'''Yevanic''', also known as '''Judaeo-Greek''', '''Romaniyot''',<ref>Spolsky, B., S. B. Benor. 2006. "Jewish Languages." In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 120-124. http://legacy.huc.edu/faculty/faculty/benor/Spolsky%20and%20Benor%20jewish_languages%20offprint.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003224331/http://legacy.huc.edu/faculty/faculty/benor/Spolsky%20and%20Benor%20jewish_languages%20offprint.pdf |date=2018-10-03 }}.</ref> '''Romaniote''', and '''Yevanitika''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3201?hl=es|title=¿Sabías que el Yevanic es una lengua clasificada como|website=Idiomas en peligro de extinción|access-date=3 April 2018}}</ref> is a [[Hellenic languages|Greek dialect]] formerly used by the [[Romaniotes]] and by the [[Constantinopolitan Karaites]] (in whose case the language is called '''Karaitika''' or '''Karaeo-Greek''').<ref>Wexler, P. Jewish and Non-Jewish Creators of "Jewish" Languages, p. 17. 2006</ref><ref>Dalven, R. Judeo-Greek. In: Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971:426</ref> The Romaniotes are a group of [[History of the Jews in Greece|Greek Jews]] whose presence in [[the Levant]] is documented since the [[Byzantine period]]. Its [[linguistics|linguistic]] lineage stems from the [[Jewish Koine Greek|Jewish Koine]] spoken primarily by [[Hellenistic Jews]] throughout the region, and includes [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] and [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] elements. It was mutually intelligible with the Greek dialects of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used the [[Hebrew alphabet]] to write Greek and Yevanic texts. Judaeo-Greek has had in its history different spoken variants depending on different eras, geographical and sociocultural backgrounds. The oldest [[Modern Greek]] text was found in the [[Cairo Geniza]] and is actually a Jewish translation of the [[Book of Ecclesiastes]] (Kohelet).<ref>Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis. Language of Religion, Language of the People: Medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, p. 31, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006</ref>