ENGLISH

Handbook of Jewish Languages

By Lily Kahn , Aaron D. Rubin (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004217339, 9789004217331
ISSN
1879-629X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9532363 bytes)
Series
Brill's Handbooks in Linguistics 2
Pages
xx+760\781
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-11-27 16:39:39
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Сравнительно-истор

Description

This Handbook of Jewish Languages is an introduction to the many languages used by Jews throughout history, including Yiddish, Judezmo (Ladino), and Jewish varieties of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Berber, English, French, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Iranian, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Malayalam, Occitan (Provençal), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Syriac, Turkic (Karaim and Krymchak), Turkish, and more. Chapters include historical and linguistic descriptions of each language, an overview of primary and secondary literature, and comprehensive bibliographies to aid further research. Many chapters also contain sample texts and images. This book is an unparalleled resource for anyone interested in Jewish languages, and will also be very useful for historical linguists, dialectologists, and scholars and students of minority or endangered languages.

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