'''Yevanic''', otherwise known as '''Romaniote''' and '''Judeo-Greek''', was the Dialect of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Greece is documented since the Hellenistic_period. Its linguistic lineage stems from the Hellenistic Koine ''(Ελληνική Κοινή)'' and includes Hebrew elements as well. It was mutually intelligible with Greek of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used their version of the Hebrew_alphabet to write Greek and Yevanic texts. There are no longer any native speakers of Yevanic, for the following reasons: * the assimilation of the tiny Romaniote communities by the larger Ladino-speaking Sephardi Jews * the adoption of Greek, Turkish and Bulgarian through assimilation; * the Emigration of many of the Romaniotes to Israel and the United_States; * the Ideology of Zionism, which favored Hebrew as the one language for all Jews; * and finally, the extermination of many of the Romaniotes during the Holocaust. ==See also== *Romaniotes *Jewish_languages ==External links== * Jewish Language Research Website: Judeo-Greek * Ethnologue report {{Jewish language}} {{ie-lang-stub}} Category:Varieties_of_Modern_Greek Category:Jewish_languages Category:Jews_and_Judaism_in_Greece Category:Languages_of_Greece Category:Extinct_languages_of_Europe Br:Yevaneg Fr:Yévanique Gl:Grego_ievánico Ja:ユダヤ・ギリシア語