'''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)
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Category:Ancient_Jewish_Roman_history
Category:Jewish_languages
Category:Jews_and_Judaism_in_France
Category:Jews_and_Judaism_in_Italy
Category:Latin_language
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