Judeo-Italian

ITK

moribund

Alternate Names: Italkian

Genealogy:

Indo-European
Italic
Romance
Italo-Western
Italo-Dalmatian

Demographics: 200 in Italy. Very few speakers are fluent (Salminen 2007). Population total all countries: 250.

Language Use: More commonly spoken 2 generations ago. Used in Passover song. Perhaps 4,000 occasionally use elements of it in their speech (10% of Italy’s 40,000 Jews).

Language Development: OT.

Writing System: Hebrew

Nation of Origin: Italy

Other Comments: Jewish.