Judeo-Portuguese
| Judaeo-Portuguese | |
|---|---|
| Judeu-Português | |
| Native to | Netherlands, Germany (Hamburg), England, North America, Brazil |
| Extinct | early 19th century fewer than 2,000 users in a limited liturgical context |
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Indo-European
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| Latin (Portuguese alphabet), Hebrew alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Judeo-Portuguese (or Lusitanic) is the extinct Jewish language that was used by the Portuguese Jews of Portugal.
The Judeo-Portuguese language was the vernacular of Sephardi Jews in Portugal before the 16th century and also in many places of the Portuguese Jewish diaspora. Texts were written in Hebrew script (aljamiado português) or in Latin script.
As Portuguese Jews intermarried with other expelled Sephardim, it influenced the neighboring Judeo-Spanish language. Due to close similarity to standard Portuguese, Judeo-Portuguese became extinct in Portugal, surviving in the everyday usage in the diaspora until the early 19th century. Judeo-Portuguese influenced the Papiamento and Saramaccan languages.
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