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Romaniyot

Judeo-Greek
  • Glottocode: yeva1238
  • ISO 639-3: yej
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Judeo-Greek (also called Yevanic) is the variety of Greek long retained by the Romaniote Jewish community in and around the town of Ioannina in northern Greece. While there is little documentation about this variety and apparently no remaining speakers, there are members of the Ioannina community living in and around New York who remember some words. They are centered on Kehila Kedosha Janina, built in 1927 on the Lower East Side and known as only Romaniote synagogue in the Western hemisphere. This active institution now counts many Sephardic (originally Ladino-speaking) and Ashkenazi (originally Yiddish-speaking) Jews among its members.
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