Judeo-Hamedani dialect

Judeo-Hamedani dialect

Judeo-Hamedani is a Central Iran dialect, spoken by the Jewish community living in Hamadan, in western Iran. The first records of Jewish communities in this region date to approximately 750 BC.Fact|date=March 2007

Like most Jewish languages, Judeo-Hamedani is written using Hebrew characters. Fact|date=February 2008 The language contains a large number of HebrewFact|date=February 2008 and Kurdish loanwords Fact|date=February 2008.

Following the decline and consolidation of the Persian Jewish community in the mid-20th century, while many Judeo-Persian languages fell into disuse, Judeo-Hamedani has maintained a tenuous foothold, among the remaining Jewish community in Hamadan as well as in the expatriate communities in Israel and the United States.

ee also

* Jews in Iran

References

* [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/languages.htm Omniglot.com]
* [http://www.mazdapub.com/Comprehensive-History-Jews.htm Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran]
* [http://www.iranianamericanjews.blogspot.com/ Iranian American Jews]
* [http://www.ijchronicle.com/ Iranian Jewish Chronicle Magazine]

Related News Articles

* [http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/Ancientlanguagecom.html/ Ancient Judeo-Persian Language Kept Alive]


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