A linguistic sketch of Judeo-Piedmontese and what it tells us about Piedmontese Jews’ origins

• Nicola Duberti ^[1] ; Maria Teresa Milano ; Emanuele Miola ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Turin

     University of Turin

     Torino, Italia

     
  2. [2] University of Milano-Bicocca

     University of Milano-Bicocca

     Milán, Italia

     
• Localización: Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, ISSN-e 1865-9063, ISSN 0049-8661, Vol. 131, Nº 4, 2015, págs. 1042-1064
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1515/zrp-2015-0072
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• Resumen

  • Judeo-Piedmontese (also called Lason Akodesh) is a virtually extinct dialect spoken by the Jewish communities that settled in Piedmont from the 14th century onward. The article takes into account the two historical stages usually recognized for Judeo-Italian varieties, namely the Medieval and the Modern one. As regards Judeo-Piedmontese, the only testimony of the former period is the Glossario di Alba by Jacob ben Nathan de Olmo; while more data, still limited in quantity, is available for the Modern period. Through the analysis of some relevant morpho-syntactic traits, Judeo-Piedmontese is shown to be a conservative Piedmontese variety, exhibiting some interesting Provençal-Ligurian features. Thus, on the basis of linguistic data too, it is possible to claim that the Jewish communities that settled in Piedmont might have come from Provence and Liguria.