Editing Yevanic language (section)

==Literature==
There is a small amount of literature in Yevanic dating from the early part of the modern period, the most extensive document being a translation of the [[Pentateuch]]. A polyglot edition of the [[Bible]] published in [[Istanbul|Constantinople]] in 1547 has the Hebrew text in the middle of the page, with a Ladino ([[Judaeo-Spanish]]) translation on one side and a Yevanic translation on the other.<ref>Natalio Fernandez Marcos, ''The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Versions of the Bible'' (2000) p 180. The Greek text is published in D. C. Hesseling, ''Les cinq livres de la Loi'' (1897).</ref>
In its context, this exceptional cultivation of the vernacular has its analogue in the choice of Hellenistic Greek by the translators of the [[Septuagint]] and in the [[New Testament]].<ref>Lockwood, W. B. 1972. "A Panorama of Indo-European Languages." Hutchinson. London.</ref>