Talk:Judeo-Malayalam

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This article brings up the question:

Are there other Jewish languages based on Indian languages?

I've heard of several other groups of Jews in India besides the Cochin Jews, including the Bene Israel. Gringo300 02:04, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Delete this
I recomend that this article be deleted. There is no language called Judeo-Malayalam. The Jewish population in Kerala was never more than a few thousand and they spoke Malayalam, just like everyone else and used Hebrew for prayer. The languages did not mix, except when refering to religious activities. If you want to call Malayalam a Jewish language because some Jewish people spoke it that is fine, like calling English a Jewish language because Saul Bellow and other Jewish writers wrote in it but to say there is a seperate Judeo-Malayalam is ridiculous. It is not even a dialect. It's like saying there is Judeo-English.What did Disraeli and Lord Rothschild speak? English, not Judeo-English.
 * See Yinglish and Yeshivish. Unless you're prepared to debate the uselessness and factual inaccuracy of the references and to the body of literature that is not online, I suggest that your protestations are erroneous and/or misinformed.  BTW, get an account.  Tomer TALK  04:06, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Do not delete. Judeo Malaylam is an archaic version that has manay similarities to Tamil alsoRaveenS 22:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


 * There is no such language known as Judeo-Malayalam. The Jews from India either speak the native language and for religious purposes, they may also speak Hebrew. I find it funny to say that a Jew speaking Malayalam is Judeo-Malayalam. Then what will an Indian speaking Hebrew called, India-Hebrew. What about an Arab speaking Hebrew called Islamic-Hebrew?.Chanakyathegreat (talk) 14:49, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I really don't want to repeat myself. Tomertalk 03:11, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

There is Urdu (Muslim-Hindi) and Mappila-Malayalam or Arabic-Malayalam and Tamil-Malayalam. Whether these are languages or dialects is a different issue. The point is that communities, especially in multicultural India, develop their own dialects that are influenced by their religious language. In the case of Judeo-Malayalam, it is Hebrew. To argue for and against the existance of Judeo-Malayalam, one must be a linguist who studies the oral speech and the written documents of Kerala Jews. And, yes, the Hebrew and Arabic that Palestinians speak in Israel is definitely a peculiar dialect and not merely Arabic. How to call it is again a different issue, fraught with politics of nationality and identity. But the linguistic peculiarities are still there, whether we like it or not.

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by Linguistm (talk • contribs) 05:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Language or a dialect?
I don't think it is an independent language. It does not have any grammatical difference from standard Malayalam. The only difference is, it uses a few Hebrew words in the place of Malayalam words. --99v (talk) 19:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)