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Title Handbook of Jewish languages / edited by Lily Kahn, Aaron D. Rubin
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 760 pages .)
Series Brill's handbooks in linguistics
Brill's handbooks in linguistics.
Contents Acknowledgements; Author Biographies; Transcription; 1. Biblical Hebrew; 2. Post-Biblical Hebrew; 3. Modern Hebrew; 4. Other Languages; Introduction (Rubin and Kahn); 1. Scope of the Volume; 2. Jewish Languages; 3. Further Study; 4. Bibliography; Chapter 1. Jewish Amharic (Teferra); 1. Historical Introduction; 2. Jewish Amharic Literature and Media; 3. Linguistic Profile of Jewish Amharic; 3.1. Phonology; 3.2. Lexicon; 3.3. Morphological Integration of Borrowings; 4. Further Study; 5. Bibliography; Chapter 2. Judeo-Arabic (Khan); 1. Introduction; 2. Periods of Written Judeo-Arabic
2.1. Orthography2.2. Script, Texts, and Readership; 2.3. Grammatical Structure; 2.4. Lexis; 3. Spoken Judeo-Arabic Dialects; 3.1. History and Geographical Spread; 3.2. Differences between Jewish Sedentary and Muslim Bedouin-Type Dialects; 3.3. Differences between Jewish and Muslim Sedentary Dialects; 3.4. History of Distinctive Jewish Features; 3.5. Jewish Arabic Influence on Israeli Hebrew; 3.6. Lexis; 4. Text Samples; 4.1. Early Judeo-Arabic; 4.2. Classical Judeo-Arabic; 4.3. Late Judeo-Arabic; 5. Further Study; 6. Bibliography; Chapter 3. Judeo-Aramaic (Fassberg); 1. Introduction
2. Judeo-Aramaic and Language Contact between Hebrew and Aramaic3. Judeo-Aramaic at Elephantine (5th Century BCE); 4. Biblical Aramaic; 5. Judeo-Aramaic Alphabet; 6. Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls; 7. Legal Documents and Letters between the First and Second Jewish Revolts against the Romans; 8. Targums Onqelos and Jonathan; 9. Standard Literary Aramaic; 10. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic-First Stratum; 11. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic-Second Stratum; 12. Jewish Palestinian Aramaic-Third Stratum; 13. Jewish Babylonian Aramaic; 14. Two Notable Medieval Judeo-Aramaic Compositions; 14.1. The Zohar
880-01 1. Historical Introduction2. Linguistic Profile of Jewish English; 2.1. Lexis; 2.2. Phonology; 2.3. Morphosyntax; 3. Jewish English Literature; 4. Further Study; 5. Bibliography; Chapter 6. Judeo-French (Kiwitt and Dörr); 1. Historical Introduction; 2. Survey of the Judeo-French Textual Tradition; 3. Overview of Linguistic Features; 4. Orthography; 5. Text Samples; 5.1. Two Glosses from Rashi's Bible Commentary (Ps. 58:9); 5.2. Glosses from Hebrew-French Biblical Glossaries; 5.3. Excerpt from the Troyes Elegy; 5.4. Excerpts from the Translation of the Thesaurus Pauperum (Petrus Hispanus)
880-01/(2/r 14.2. Ḥad Gadya15. Jewish Neo-Aramaic; 16. Further Study; 17. Bibliography; Chapter 4. Jewish Berber (Chetrit); 1. Historical Introduction; 2. Jewish Berber Literature; 2.1. Verbal Art; 2.2. Narration of Communal Events and Personal Anecdotes; 2.3. Satirical Texts; 2.4. Oral Calque Translations; 2.5. Specially Commissioned Translations of the Passover Haggadah; 3. Linguistic Profile of Jewish Berber; 3.1. Phonology; 3.2. Morphosyntax; 3.3. Lexis; 4. Text Samples; 4.1. Satirical Story; 4.2. ‮חד גדיא‬‎ Ḥad Gadya 'One Kid'; 5. Further Study; 6. Bibliography; Chapter 5. Jewish English (Benor)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English, some text in Yiddish and other multiple languges with translations in English
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Subject Jews -- Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
Jews -- Languages
Form Electronic book
Author Kahn, Lily, editor
Rubin, Aaron D., 1976- editor.
LC no. 2015029552
ISBN 9789004297357
9004297359