'''Judeo-Latin''', or '''La‘az''' is the presumed Jewish_language of the many scattered Jewish communities of the former Roman_Empire, but especially by the Jewish communities of the Italian_Peninsula and Transalpine Gaul. It has been posited that Judeo-Latin is the predecessor of all the Judeo-Romance_languages, although strong phonological evidence for this link is found primarily in Shuadit (Judeo-Provençal). This theory holds that Shuadit and Zarphatic grew out of two variants of '''La‘az ha-Ma‘rav''' (western Judeo-Latin) and that Judeo-Italian grew out of '''La‘az ha-Darom''' (southern Judeo-Latin). The relationship to Catalanic, Ladino and Judæo-Portuguese is much more tenuous. Judeo-Latin likely influenced not only the Judeo-Romance languages, but also the Yiddish_language and Rotwelsch, through its posited daughter languages, Italkian, Shuadit and Zarphatic. ==Related languages== The historical relationships between the various Judeo-Romance languages is subject to debate, and are only tenuously demonstrable at best. These languages include: *Catalanic (Judeo-Catalan) *Judeo-Italian (Italkian) *Judeo-Aragonese *Judeo-Portuguese *Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) *Shuadit (Judeo-Provençal) *Zarphatic (Judeo-French) {{Jewish language}} {{ie-lang-stub}} {{Ancient-Rome-stub}} {{Jewish-hist-stub}} {{ethno-stub}} Category:Ancient_Jewish_Roman_history Category:Jewish_languages Category:Jews_and_Judaism_in_France Category:Jews_and_Judaism_in_Italy Category:Latin_language Br:Yuzev-latin Es:Judeolatín