Judæo-Marathi

Judæo-Marathi

Judæo-Marathi (जुदाव मराठी) is a form of Marathi spoken by the Bene Israel, a Jewish ethnic group that developed a unique identity in India and in Pakistan. Judæo-Marathi is, like other Marathi, written in the Devanagari script. It may not be sufficiently different from Marathi as to constitute a distinct language, although it is characterized by a number of loanwords from Hebrew and Aramaic as a result of influence from the Cochin Jewish community, Judæo-Malayalam and Portuguese.

The Judish-Marathi Community mainly resides in Raigad and Thane districts and the city of Mumbai in Mahaashtra.

External links

[http://dusarichalwal.blog.com/529767/ a blog about Bene-Israel]


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