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{{History of the Greek language}}
''''''Yevanic''', otherwise known as '''Romaniote''' and '''Judeo-Greek''', was the dialect of the [[Romaniotes]], the group of Greek Jews whose existence in [[Greece]] is documented since the [[Hellenistic period]]. Its linguistic lineage stems from the [[Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic]] [[Koine]] ''(Ελληνική Κοινή)'' and includes Hebrew elements as well. It was mutually intelligible with [[Greek language|Greek]] of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used their version of the Hebrew alphabet to write Greek and Yevanic texts.

The name "Yevanic" stems from the Biblical [[Javan]], ancestor of the Greeks (Genesis 10).

There are no longer any native speakers of Yevanic, for the following reasons:

* the assimilation of the tiny Romaniote communities by the more numerous Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jews
* the adoption of [[Greek language|Greek]], Turkish and Bulgarian through assimilation;'''
* the emigration of many of the Romaniotes to Israel and the United States;
* the ideology of Zionism, which favored Hebrew as the one language for all Jews;
* and finally, the extermination of many of the Romaniotes during the Holocaust.

==See also==
*[[Romaniotes]]

==External links==
* [http://www.jewish-languages.org/judeo-greek.html Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Greek]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=yej Ethnologue report]

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