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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Europe > Italy > Judeo-Italian

Judeo-Italian

A language of Italy

ISO 639-3itk

Population  200.
Alternate names   Italkian
Classification  Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian
Language use  More commonly spoken two generations ago. Used in Passover song. Perhaps 4,000 occasionally use elements of it in their speech (10% of Italy’s 40,000 Jews).
Language development  OT.
Writing system  Hebrew script.
Comments  Jewish.