Have You Heard of These Rare Jewish Languages?

[@Adson_von_Melk]

There is also Juhuri - the language of Mountain Jews, who live in Azerbaijan and Dagestan (Russia). It's an Iranian language and is very close to Persian.

[@multisingual1241]

Thanks for sharing! I’ve never heard of it before. That’s very interesting

[@buras3]

@@multisingual1241 נקרא גם קווקזית?

[@lionegberts]

When I saw the language written down it was so beautiful.

[@Nehamah92205]

Xudu Kumak!:)

[@DerGoy2024]

By being somewhat fluent in Spanish I’ve always loved listening to Ladino being spoken. Breaks my heart that it’s not as widely spoken as Yiddish.

[@multisingual1241]

That’s so amazing that you’ve been listening to Ladino! It’s a shame it’s a dying language ☹️

[@thumbstruck]

The Seattle area has a Ladino heritage population. Ladino speakers helped to start the Seattle Public Market.

[@multisingual1241]

Wow! So interesting! Thanks for sharing

[@theoak9390]

Grandpa grew up in Istanbul speaking Ladino. He's a singer and has recently published a couple of songs in ladino!

[@multisingual1241]

Wow that’s incredible! What fascinating heritage

[@syedandrabi7334]

Thanks for sharing this amount of knowledge about these beautiful languages. Stay Blessed

[@tony4197]

Thank you so much Shemi, i learned a lot, I'm an Iranian jew, we also have our own language and it really depends on the region as well.

[@multisingual1241]

Wow! So nice to hear! Sending prayers from NY ✡️

[@theunholyburger9338]

theres are 100's of these types of dialects. Probably the least attested is Low German-Danish Jewish Pidgin which while unattested is mentioned in the plays of a Danish poet.

[@GgM-bs1fu]

Jiddisch und Ladino lerne ich seit fast einem Jahr, da ich schon Deutsch und Spanisch beherrsche. Übrigens habe ich vergessen, dir mitzuteilen, dass ich vor einem Monat eine meiner Lieblings-KZbinrinnen gebeten habe, auf dein Video über Deutsch und Jiddisch und Rene Duponts Kommentare zu reagieren und dein Video gefiel ihr sehr. Der Kanal heißt Hyperpolyglotting with Élise und der Livestream heißt «Playing chess, learning Georgian, and talking language learning» (Das Vorschaubild enthält den Kommentarbereich) Geh zu 2:14:22. Ich habe auch eine Wiedergabeliste mit Videos erstellt, auf die Rene reagiert hat, falls du vorhast, bald ein Video über ihn zu machen.

[@alphadog3384]

So interesting thanks for sharing.

[@multisingual1241]

Danke für deinem Vorschlag, aber ich will leider keinen Video über ihn machen in die kommende Zeit. Es ist aber super toll dass du Jiddisch und Ladino lernst 🙌🏻

[@GgM-bs1fu]

@@multisingual1241 Kein Problem. Ja, ich vergleiche die Sprachen sehr gerne.

[@frankiedomanico9701]

Wow, it’s really amazing to hear a 20-something year old speak Yiddish as a native language! That hasn’t been heard for generations!

[@multisingual1241]

Have a visit to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Ny or Kiryat Yoel, NY you’ll be surprised to see full communities speaking it 😃

[@frankiedomanico9701]

@@multisingual1241 Hey I’m in NJ, so yeah why not? 😊 Are you from there, and do you live there yourself?

[@multisingual1241]

I don’t give out my location, but I have been to them both! Definitely feels like a different country when you enter.

[@KayceRivera]

Judeo-Catalan is a form of Catalan used by Jewish communities in Catalonia.

[@multisingual1241]

Yes I’ve got a video about more Judeo-Romance languages coming soon 😃

[@myriamgabbay111]

There was also a Karaite community in Hit, Iraq which is where the Karaite break off group originated in about the 8th Century in Bavel/Babylonia, which is now Iraq (more or less). It was started by Anan Ben David. He was passed over by the leaders of the Jewish community, the Geonim, for his younger brother who they saw was much God fearing than his older brother to become the Exilarch. Out of his anger at this, he said that the Rabbis and the Oral law are not valid, thus in effect getting back at those Rabbis/Geonim who chose his younger brother. It's very likely that Anan had access to writing of the Sadducee movement which was very strong during 2nd Temple times. Today there are no extant writings from the Sadducees of that time. Also, there were Rabbinic Jews in Crimea as well and they too spoke a Jewish-Tartar language. In addition there also existed a Judeo-Persian language which the Persian/Iranian Jews spoke. Also, it's very possible that a Judeo-Slavic language existed in the past. I read about it many years ago and there was a scholarly book written on the topic but I couldn't afford to purchase it so I didn't find out more about the topic. Aramaic was still spoken up to modern times by Jews from Kurdistan (norther Iraq, Turkey, Syria) and from Urmia, which is in Northeastern Iran. I have met Jews from both of these groups. One of them told me that when he became religiously observant it was very easy for him to learn the Talmud/Gemara because he already spoke Aramaic. Others who become religiously observant, and they being to delve into the Talmud/gemara literally have to learn a new language; Aramaic. Of course Aramaic is very similar to Hebrew and was spoken in ancient times by the Jews in their mundane, everyday speech. As I was saying Aramaic is very closely related to Hebrew. When I learned the book of Daniel which is written in Aramaic except for one chapter I was able to understand about 75% of it without having to look at the translation of the Aramaic to Hebrew. And as a woman, I never studied the Talmud/gemara very much and when I did, I used an English translation. Thank you Adson_von-Melk for mentioning the Juhuri language of the Kafkazi Jews from Azerbaijan and Dagestan. Also, the Bukhari Jews speak Bukhari, which is also a dialect of Persian. Today most of the Bukhari Jews speak Russian and don't use Bukhari as much. Though I have met Bukhari Jews from Israel and there they spoke Bukhari, not Russian in the home. Thanks so much for this video. I especially like that you put in samples of how the language actually sounds.

[@Maugrim76]

Wow, I wish I knew Yiddish. It sounds so cool and the Yiddish culture has the best music.

[@multisingual1241]

That’s so wonderful to hear. Maybe you can start with one of my beginner Yiddish videos Here’s your guide for everyday vocabulary in Yiddish kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5zOfn-dZriVaLs good luck! ☺️

[@haroldhughes1338]

i ve heard of all these i ve actually heard spoken hebrew ladino and yiddish in atlanta charleston nyc and israel aramaic is used in synagogues and in marronite churches thank you for a great video

[@1ansgar1]

Ashuri languange is spoken among Jews who migrated from Iraq in the 50s. The descendents of Ashur and Arpakhshad lived together thousands of years before Abram left Mesopotamia, so they intermixed and had same language, religion, ..until nowdays. The only thing that divided us was unfortunately Jesus. Due to different reasons, often political, and other pressure the Ashuri embraced jesus and forsake their Jewish faith. In the third century many Ashuri converted back to Judaism though.

[@multisingual1241]

Wow this is such fascinating history! Thanks for sharing 😄

[@amethyst4990]

What a cool video thank you

[@multisingual1241]

Glad you enjoyed it! ☺️

[@rsfaeges5298]

Interesting video: i learned quite a few things.

[@multisingual1241]

Glad to hear

[@andrearoseschneider7479]

Did not know there was 6 Jewish languages. I heard of some but two were new. Thanks

[@travisjacobson2334]

Arabic certainly is not the oldest language. While it was spoken for at least 600 years before it was written, it does not actually make it on any lists of the oldest languages.

[@Ichrubbeldiekatz]

Learned something again, thanks!

[@multisingual1241]

I’m glad ☺️

[@zetaepsilondelta545]

Yiddish sounds kinda cute, especially when you speak it 😎 "Aramaic was lost to Arabic" lol. All we need now is for Arabic to get lost. ☁️

[@reDrawn19]

In Dutch words like Jiddish words like Gabber, gappen, snaaien, linkmiegel, iets in de 'smiezen' hebben, etc. are common in the language. They are assimilated in the language

[@multisingual1241]

So interesting! Thanks for sharing!

[@reDrawn19]

@@multisingual1241 Ooow and look up 'gabberhouse' and 'gabbers' because here in the Netherlands there is a music genre called Hardcore house and the people with the bald heads are called Gabbers. And also the supporters of soccer club Ajax are called Joden, because before ww2 most of the supporters were from predominantly Jewish neighborhoods.

[@es8945]

What about the Bukharian (Bukhori) language? It's spoken by the Bukharian Jews of Central Asia

[@multisingual1241]

I could not include every Jewish language, but maybe I’ll mention it in a future video! ☺️

[@MoïsePicard-ef8fr]

What religion do you follow?

[@multisingual1241]

I’m Jewish ✡️

[@claimhsolais3466]

Fascinating video, well covered so well done! It's also unfortunate that Romaniotika has extinct and little information is known about it. While Jews have a long recorded history, much of it lost during the ottoman occupation and later during ww2.

[@multisingual1241]

Yeah that’s true. We can only do the best we can with what we’ve got

[@claimhsolais3466]

@@multisingual1241 true that. Some of the oldest synagogues are found in Greece, such as in the islands of Delos and Aegina. Being a native Greek I can provide with further information about them, as well for Romaniotes. Regards 🇬🇷✡🇮🇱

[@multisingual1241]

@claimhsolais3466 so interesting! I would love to come to Greece someday and check out all of the Jewish history remains there 😄

[@claimhsolais3466]

@@multisingual1241 there's a rich history of Jewish people in Greek throughout the ages, and thankfully many sites and relics have been preserved and honor up to day. Same thing goes for the Hellenistic Judaism in Israel.

[@sebbvell3426]

Ladino sounds like Spanish with weird words sprinkle throughout, to be honest.

[@multisingual1241]

Yeah Spanish speakers find it so weird just like German speakers find Yiddish weird

[@cl9615]

I seriously doubt that anyone of note has claimed that Arabic is the oldest language

[@multisingual1241]

I went according to some online recourses I found. However, it’s very unclear which language actually IS the oldest one

[@cl9615]

Yes that’s true. The ultimate question is determine at what point each language became that language. For example, is ancient Hebrew (which is essentially a Proto-Semitic language) actually Hebrew or is something else entirely and what we know as Hebrew came later? It’s almost impossible to pinpoint when a language actually began.

[@multisingual1241]

@cl9615 that’s true. Historians can only use whatever information we have about ancient society which is very little

[@jordan3636]

aramaic is really old the old testament was mostly written in aramaic, not hebrew

[@jordan3636]

@@cl9615 hebrew is a conlang. it's mostly made up fake language.

[@keithmoore3199]

Do modern Samaritans not speak Aramaic also?

[@SalihSelamet]

surely, you meant 1100 bce, not 11000 bce?

[@multisingual1241]

Yes, sorry for my mistake. Good catch

[@buras3]

יש גם בוכרית שהיא טאג'קית יהודות שדוברה באיזור חורסאן . 50000 דוברים נשארו

[@multisingual1241]

איזה נפלא!

[@1ansgar1]

Thanks for nice and interestin videos. When u say aramaic alphabet, I hope u mean the , כְּתָב אַשּׁוּרִי‎, Ktav Ashuri, another cornerstone we have in common, likewise it's gematria. The first documented use of gematria is from an Assyrian inscription dating to the 8th century BC, commissioned by Sargon II. The Ashuri language is preserved until today by Ashuri (Assyrians) in mideast AND Jews in Iraq. Most scholars today agree that the living spoken Ashuri language is slightly related to aramaic, hence neo aramaic is wrong designation. Similarity between Ashuri and Aramaic, which is extinct, is same as between German and English. So not as German and Yiddish.

[@intricate9666]

יש גם מלא סוגים של ערבית יהודית, כמו יהודית מרוקאית יהודית תימנית יהודית טוניזאית ועוד

[@multisingual1241]

זה מעניין מאוד

[@kkKey-py7lk]

5 million ASSYRIAN speck

[@kkKey-py7lk]

You forgot 3 million Farsi Jewish

[@multisingual1241]

You’re right. Maybe I’ll have to make another video then 😄

[@kkKey-py7lk]

@@multisingual1241 Al so India ordo afqninstan Jewish too

[@jollyshah9251]

I have a doubt regarding name Ashkenazi why nazi! At end and btw they are the type of jews who were living in Germany and Europe so you know nazi means what then why it is a suffix?

[@Ichrubbeldiekatz]

Ashkenazi has nothing to do with the political term "Nazi". Ashkenaz/Aschkenas is just the name for German in rabbinic literature. The term "Nazi" originally comes from the name “Ignatz (Egnatius )”, or in short "Naz/Nazi" (diminutive form). "Nazi" (as in the name Ignatz) was also used to describe a person who is backwards or stupid (ironically). "Nazi" was basically a synonym for idiot (and still is). The political party (NSDAP) did not call itself "Nazi" very often; in fact, the popularity of the "Nazi" term only increased in the post-war period. For this reason, Hitler even wanted to ban the word when he came to power.

[@Rita1984]

The word for germany in the torah is literally ashkenaz, jews have been ashkenazi long before the socialist party of germany 😂 its a coincidence

[@multisingual1241]

It’s coincidental. It doesn’t have anything to do with it

[@jordan3636]

you should read a bit about when the jews rounded up al the Christians up put them nazino island. interesting how the nazi bit constantly comes up. also national socialism, original sozialism. this is because the jews created socialism and national socialism and they love throwing random z's into words to claim them and then when the word gets a bad rep, they will change the spelling to anglicized it.

[@jordan3636]

remember national socialism is the ideology of the national socialist and mostly where we credit facist and national socialist ideology. Remember that the first thing Israel did to settle Palestine was to set up dispersed communes everywhere to settle the land, these kibbutz still are a central part of the Israeli economy today, the socialism as well as the facism, but I probably need not describe it here. israel was a national socialist country committing genocide in early 1918 way before hitler and the nazi's. even though the germans are actual indigenous people of Germany, where as the jews through their nomadic behavior have made themselves indigenous people of no country. Let's also consider that at the beginning of a new very imaginary nation, that Israel and the zionists might have desperately needed population to support this new country, but that would require somehow convincing all the worldly jews involved in various national banks and positions of power such as the community in germany.

[@kkKey-py7lk]

You speak ASSYRIAN Akkidin

[@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist]

Do you speak the Hungarian dialect of Yiddish, right? You pronounce ו as i and not as u.

[@multisingual1241]

Yep!

[@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist]

@@multisingual1241 Yiddish is the coolest language. I'm Mizrahi but I've always loved that language.

[@multisingual1241]

@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist yes I agree it is the best ☺️ you can be any kind of Jew, or any person and still learn and use Yiddish

[@NewYorkeIsyasonoilmioamoreጓል]

Arabic can't be an old language

[@multisingual1241]

Why not?

[@IsraelMendoza-OOOOOOO]

O O O ❤️ In Jesus Christ Name Amen O ABBA OOO ⚡

[@kkKey-py7lk]

You speck Turkish

[@multisingual1241]

Nope 😀

[@kkKey-py7lk]

@@multisingual1241 we have Jewish in Azerbaijan and Armenian and Tajikistan

[@English-Mark]

טונ שלום

[@rewschreijewschrei]

Ya i hate i wasnt raised speaking as many languages as possible. I wish id had yiddish 1st. Deutsch 2nd Irish 3rd But. Itll be ok. In the next we get it all its said :)

[@jollyshah9251]

I have a question why world hates jews like they have always been oppressed throughout their history first sumeria then Egypt then Persians then Greeks then the holy Roman empire then Arabs after that when they came to Europe in medieval times they were still oppressed for centuries and also counted as social backwards then hitler just killed millions of them and all throughout this 3,000 years of oppression they just demanded a single country Israel And in morden times when they were attacked first by terrorists and they defended themselves they are being hated and called oppressive I don't think what Arabs did for like 1400 years this casualties of war which is on both the sides btw is nothing. And still suffering for their entire history they are great scientists, investors, businessmen, politicians, writers and any filed you imagine a Jewish man has done big contributions into that . I'm ashamed for what morden world does against jews even if there is war between Russia and Ukraine which has over 1 million casualties no one is talking about it but just because Israel is a Jewish country woke people are only condemning them , like war of Russia and Ukraine has big impact on economy but no one cares and the war between two small countries which doesn't have any economic impact is being protest for no reason?

[@multisingual1241]

I wish I could answer your question with all my heart. Unfortunately, no one really knows why it’s like this. We learn in the Torah though, that God asked us if we want to accept the Torah, even if it means that other nations will hate us. We accepted it and other nations hate us. But the truth is, we have not done anything wrong to deserve the hate. ☹️

[@bdnl6268]

@@multisingual1241 Well, it is not being protested for no reason but because 32,000 people have been killed, mostly women and children, the Israeli government is still preventing food from getting in, they have killed 96 journalists, they will not let foreign journalists enter, they are threatening to invade Raffa but have not provided safety for civilian casualties, and - look at the occupied West Bank!

[@kkKey-py7lk]

Jew son Ibrahim son Sargon akkidin Jew speck akkidin

[@o0GrayMatters0o]

your face, i like that shit. i'm 1% Ashkenazi.

[@rewschreijewschrei]

:D