Judæo-Marathi

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Jewish languages
Hebrew
Biblical · Mishnaic
Ashkenazi · Sephardi
Yemenite · Sanaani
Tiberian · Mizrahi
Aramaic
Bijil Neo-Aramaic · Hulaulá
Lishana Deni · Lishan Didan
Lishanid Noshan
Other Afro-Asiatic
Judeo-Arabic · Kayla
Judeo-Berber · Qwara
Yiddish
National Yiddish Book Center
Yiddish Theater
Yeshivish · Yinglish
Judeo-Romance languages
Catalanic · Judeo-Italian
Ladino · Judeo-Latin
Shuadit · Zarphatic
Judeo-Portuguese
Other Indo-European
Yevanic · Knaanic
Bukhori · Juhuri
Judeo-Hamedani · Dzhidi
Judeo-Marathi
Altaic
Krymchak · Karaim
Dravidian
Judeo-Malayalam
Kartvelic
Gruzinic

Judæo-Marathi is a Jewish language spoken by the Bene Israel, a Jewish ethnic group of India. 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, Aramaic, and as a result of influence from the Cochin Jewish community, Judæo-Malayalam and Portuguese.



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