Judaeo-Piedmontese was the vernacular language of the Italian Jews living in Piedmont, Italy, from about the 15th century until World War II. It was based on the Piedmontese language, with many loanwords from ancient Hebrew, Provençal, and Spanish. Most of the speakers were murdered during the war, and as of 2015 it is virtually extinct.

Small vocabulary

The dialect never had written phonetic rules; the words in this list are written according to Agostino della Sala Spada's short satirical poem La gran battaja d’j’abrei d’Moncalv (The great battle of the Jews of Moncalvo, La gran battaglia degli ebrei di Moncalvo in Italian) and Primo Levi's book The Periodic Table. Pronunciation: (kh) as in German "Nacht". (ñ) nasal, as in English "sing"; not to be confused with the Spanish ñ. (ô) as in English "loom". (u) like the French u or the German ü. (sc) like the English sh. (j) as in German "Jung" or in English "young".

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