Knaanic language
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| Knaanic | ||
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| Spoken in: | Europe | |
| Total speakers: | — | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Slavic West Slavic Czech-Slovak Knaanic | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | czk | |
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Knaanic (also called Canaanic, Leshon Knaan or Judeo-Slavic) was a West Slavic Jewish language, formerly spoken in the Czech lands, now the Czech Republic. It became extinct in the Late Middle Ages. The name Knaanic applied mainly to Judeo-Czech, but also to other Judeo-Slavic languages.
The name comes from the unrelated ancient Canaan (Hebrew כנען "kəna‘an"). Similar to the case of the Hebrew name Tzarfath (biblical Zarephath) coming to be used as the name for France following the Roman expulsion of the Jews from Judæa, the reason for the use of the name Canaan for Slavic-speaking regions is not clear.
[edit] See also
[edit] Literature
- Ruth Bondyová: Mezi námi řečeno. Jak mluvili Židé v Čechách a na Moravě (Between us: language of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia), Society of Franz Kafka 2003, ISBN 80-85844-88-5. The book documents languages used by Jews in the Czech lands during 12-20th century. Review in Czech, pages 28-33.
[edit] References
- Knaanic. Retrieved June 13, 2006, from Ethnologue: Languages of the World, fifteenth edition. SIL International. Online version.
- History of the Yiddish Language, Max Weinreich, 1980, ISBN 0-226-88604-2
Slavic languages | |
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| West Slavic | Czech · Kashubian · Knaanic† · Lower Sorbian · Pannonian Rusyn · Polabian† · Polish · Pomeranian† · Slovak · Slovincian† · Upper Sorbian |
| East Slavic | Belarusian · Old East Slavic† · Old Novgorod dialect† · Russian · Carpathian Rusyn · Ruthenian† · Ukrainian |
| South Slavic | Banat Bulgarian · Bulgarian · Church Slavonic · Macedonian · Old Church Slavonic† · Central South Slavic (Bosnian, Bunjevac, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Šokac) · Slavic (Greece) · Slovenian |
| Other | Proto-Slavic† · Russenorsk† · Slavoserbian† |
| (†) denotes Extinct | |
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af:Knaanies br:Knaneg cs:Knaanština de:Knaanisch ko:크난어 ja:クナアン語 it:Lingua canaan pl:Język knaan ro:Limba cnaanică ru:Еврейско-славянские диалекты sk:Židovská čeština
