LANGUAGE RECORD
Judeo-Provençal
The documented Jewish language of the Comtat Venaissin — Avignon, Carpentras, Cavaillon, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue — an Occitan vernacular in Hebrew script, extinct by the 20th century.
- Family
- Indo-European > Romance > Occitan (Provençal dialect group); hyperonym Judeo-Occitan includes Judeo-Gascon and Judeo-Niçard
- Script
- Originally Hebrew letters; later Latin letters.
- Vitality record
- extinct (JLP 2022: none) — a descendant ethnolect retains a few hundred words
A language, not a dialect. The record identifies Judeo-Provençal through its own family, grammar, literature, and history.
DOCUMENTED GEOGRAPHY
Places linked to Judeo-Provençal in the canon.
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WORDS AND INFLUENCE NOTES
Words connected to Judeo-Provençal.
Indexed words belong to this language record. Influence notes are a separate relationship and appear only where a word’s etymology names Judeo-Provençal directly.
Indexed under Judeo-Provençal
0 recordsNo words are indexed under this language in the current canon.
Named in other word histories
0 notesNo other word history currently names Judeo-Provençal as an influence.
PERIODS IN THE RECORD
Judeo-Provençal through the era journey.
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After the expulsions (France 1394, Provence 1501) — confined to the papal enclave
1394–1791
Emancipation, assimilation to French, and extinction
1791–1970