Editing Yevanic language (section)

==Current status==

The [[cultural assimilation|assimilation]] of the Romaniote communities by the [[Ladino language|Ladino]]-speaking [[Sephardi]] Jews, the [[emigration]] of many of the Romaniotes to the United States and Israel, and the murder of many of the Romaniotes during the [[Holocaust]] have been the main reasons of the decline of Judaeo-Greek. The survivors were too scant to continue an environment in which this language was dominant and more recent generations of the survivors have moved to new locations such as Greece, Israel, and the United States and now speak the respective languages of those countries: [[Standard Modern Greek]], [[Hebrew]], and [[English language|English]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/a-muslims-guide-to-judaism/jewish-culture/jewish-languages.html|title=Holocaust - Jewish languages|website=www.projetaladin.org|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=2 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702194238/http://www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/a-muslims-guide-to-judaism/jewish-culture/jewish-languages.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[[Robert Bonfil|Bonfil, Robert]] (2011). Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures. Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture. Brill.</ref>

The Jews have a place of note in the history of Modern Greek. They were unaffected by [[Atticism]] and employed the current colloquial vernacular which they then transcribed in Hebrew letters. The Romaniotes were Jews settled in the Eastern Roman Empire long before its division from its Western counterpart, and they were linguistically assimilated long before leaving the Levant after [[Hadrian]]'s decree against them and their religion. As a consequence, they spoke Greek, the language of the overwhelming majority of the populace in the beginning of the Byzantine era and that of the Greek élite thereafter, until the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Some communities in Northern Greece and Crete maintained their specific Romaniote practices since these communities were either geographically apart from the Sephardim or had different synagogues, and because their liturgies differed greatly.<ref>Zunz, Leopold "Ritus. 1859. Eine Beschreibung synagogaler Riten".</ref><ref>Luzzato, S. D. Introduction to the Mahzor Bene Roma, p. 34. 1966</ref> At the end of the 19th century, the Romaniote community of Greece made an effort to preserve the Romaniote liturgical heritage of Ioannina and Arta, by printing various liturgical texts in the Hebrew printing presses of Salonika.<ref name="Greece p. 40">The Jewish Museum of Greece, The Jewish Community of Ioannina: The Memory of Artefacts, p. 40 (Booklet). 2017</ref>

Yevanic has some samples on the internet but it lacks translations or spell checking, unlike larger more established languages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yevanic {{!}} Ethnologue Free |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/yej/ |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=Ethnologue (Free All) |language=en}}</ref>