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Jewish languages are a set of languages and dialects that developed in various Jewish communities around the world, more notably in Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. The usual course of development for these languages was through the addition of Hebrew words and phrases, used to express uniquely Jewish concepts and concerns, to the local vernacular. Often they were written in Hebrew letters, including the block letters used in Hebrew today and Rashi script. Due to the insular nature of many Jewish communities, many Jewish languages retain vocabulary and linguistic structures long after they…mehr

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Jewish languages are a set of languages and dialects that developed in various Jewish communities around the world, more notably in Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. The usual course of development for these languages was through the addition of Hebrew words and phrases, used to express uniquely Jewish concepts and concerns, to the local vernacular. Often they were written in Hebrew letters, including the block letters used in Hebrew today and Rashi script. Due to the insular nature of many Jewish communities, many Jewish languages retain vocabulary and linguistic structures long after they have been lost or changed in later forms of the language from which they descended. Among the most widely spoken Jewish languages to develop in the diaspora are Yiddish, which has been spoken by more Jews than any other language in history; Ladino, the language of much of Sephardic Jewry for five centuries; and the Judæo-Arabic group of languages which have been spoken in Arabic-speaking lands for nearly a millennium.