Judaeo Malayalam
Judao-Malayalam is the traditional language of the Cochin Jews (also Malabar Jews) in Kerala in southern India and is still spoken today by a few dozen mainly elderly people in Israel and India. Judaeo-Malayalam is the only known Jewish language from the Dravidian language family . The only other Dravidian language spoken regularly by a Jewish community is Telugu .
Grammar, syntax
Due to the fact that Judaeo-Malayalam differs only slightly in grammar and syntax from the normative Malayalam , it is classified by many linguists as a dialect or simply the same language with a different orthography. It therefore has the same language code as Malayalam.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ophira Gamliel: Jewish Malayalam - Women's songs. Dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem , 2009, p. 347f.