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Name:
Knaanic
Alternate Names:
Canaanic; Leshon Knaan; Judeo-Slavic
Once Spoken in:
Czech Republic
Code:
czk
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Old Czech (09y)
Child Dialect:
Judeo-Czech (czk-jud)
Brief Description:
A Jewish language which arose out of the West Slavic language which gave rise to Czech, Slovak and Polish in what is now the Czech Republic. It was written in the Hebrew script, and was gradually replaced by Yiddish, which seems to have borrowed many words from it. c. 700 - 1600 AD.
Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
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