Lachoudisch

Lachoudisch
Lachoudisch
Native to	Germany
Region	Schopfloch, Bavaria
Extinct	2022 with the death of Jane and John Doe [1]
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic High German Lachoudisch
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Lachoudisch ^[a] was a dialect of German, containing many Hebrew and Yiddish words, native to the Bavarian town of Schopfloch. It was created in the sixteenth century. Few speakers remained after the Holocaust, and it went extinct sometime after.

History

Lachoudisch formed in the 16th century, developing as an argot among several Jewish citizens who found it convenient to trade secrets in a language that non-Jews could not understand. ^[3] The language spread within the community and eventually some non-Jews knew it too. As the Jewish community of Schopfloch mostly emigrated abroad and the remained were eradicated by 1939, the language entered serious decline, and eventually went extinct. ^[4]

Features

Lachoudisch contained several Hebrew and Yiddish loanwords, many of which reflected the Jewish community's hostility to Christianity and government authority. ^[4]

Sample text

Lachoudisch [4]	English [4]	German
Der Schoufett hockt im Juschbess und kippt sein Ranze voll	The Mayor is sitting in the bar filling his belly with booze	Der Bürgermeister sitzt in der Bar und füllt seinen Bauch mit Alkohol

See also

• Lotegorisch

Notes

1. From Hebrew "lĺshōn + qodεsh" meaning "holy language". ^[2]

References

1. Eylon, Lili (25 June 2022). "The Judenrein town that spoke Hebrew". Times of Israel .
2. Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2020). "The Hebrew Reclamation: Myth and Reality". Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond. Oxford Academic. pp. 1–43. doi:10.1093/oso/9780199812776.003.0001.
3. Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2006). "A New Vision for Israeli Hebrew: Theoretical and practical implications of analyzing Israel's main language as a semi-engineered Semito-European hybrid language" (PDF). Journal of Modern Jewish Studies . 5 (1): 57–71 [60]. doi:10.1080/14725880500511175.
4. Markham, James M. (10 February 1984). "Dialect of Lost Jews Lingers in a Bavarian Town". The New York Times .