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            I plan on providing additional information to the article on the Yevanic language. This is a language spoken by Greek Jews that is listed as dormant- supposedly there are less than 50 speakers of this language today. There are a few reasons for this, including emigration from areas where this language was popular, cultural assimilation into groups with other languages, and a large part of this language's status being dormant is because many of the speakers where killed in the Holocaust.

What's missing from current Wikipedia article on the Yevanic language? - The list of alternate names of the language are incomplete- the rest of them can be found on the website for the EL Project - There can be more detail about how the Holocaust led to the current severe endangerment of this language- also can be found at EL Project... The EL Project found this information from- - The EL Project also makes the claim that there are currently 50 speakers or less, however it also provides the percentage certainty of that number based on available evidence- this is information not currently provided on the Wikipedia article but can be found at- - The overall classification of the language as an Indo-European, Greet, Attic language is not specifically mentioned on Wiki- this information is also on EL Project - The distinction between ancient judeo-greek and modern judeo-greek, which can be found at- - That there are 35 speakers in Israel (Jerusalem)- Edits from Wiki... 1. There are no longer any native speakers of Yevanic, or have less than 50 speakers, for the following reasons:

The assimilation of the tiny Romaniote communities by the more numerous Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jews; The emigration of many of the Romaniotes to the United States and Israel; The murder of many of the Romaniotes during the Holocaust; The survivors were too scant to continue an environment in which this language was dominant. The more recent generations of the survivors have moved to new locations such as Greece, Israel, and The United States and now speak the respective languages of those countries; Standard Modern Greek, Hebrew, and English

Origin

The immigration of Italian- and Spanish-speaking people into Greece in the late15th century altered the culture and vernacular of the Greek Jews. A lot locales picked up on Judeo-Spanish language and customs, however others kept the old, so-called "Romaniote" speaking tradition and the Greek phraseology. By the early 20th century, the Jews living in places such as Ioannina, Arta, Preveza, and Chalkida still spoke a form of Greek that slightly differentiated the Greek of their Christian neighbors. These differences, semantically, do not go beyond phonetic, intonational, and lexical phenomena.It is different from other Jewish languages, in that there is no knowledge of any language fragmentation ever taking place.

Historical Background

of the language before the Greek territorial expansion in the early 20th century - This language was unaffected by Attic Greek, a form of greek dialect which became popular in second century B.C. Greece. - The Jewish community that lived in Greek-speaking territory came from a variety of backgrounds. The oldest echelon is called ‘Romaniotes,’ or the natives of the Byzantine Empire (Romania). Due to continued contact between Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew, the Romaniote Language Varieties stemmed from an archaic and morphologically sophisticated Hebrew-Aramaic lingual origin. Newer generations of Romaniotes came into contact with Sephardic and Ashkenazic immigrants. Overall, there is not a lot of information about the Jewish Language Varieties in the early Greek statehood. There are several reasons for this lack of documentation, including that there was a small population of Jews initially living in Greece at this time: estimates range from a few hundred to several thousand). Another reason is that Standard Modern Greek was formed on the from the stratum of the Peloponnesian languages and Ionian islands languages, because these were the places where the first state formations began. It is likely that the Language Varieties of co-inhabiting Jews were not too fundamentally divergent from the perceived standard, and thus not engrossing enough gain attention as a different language. Also, the Jews who did not speak Greek as their native tongue were associated with foreigners, and with that label carried the stigma that they were “spoiling” and “bastardizing” Greek. Because of this, their language and culture was not considered to be worthy of any study or investigation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakedit (talk • contribs) 18:36, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

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