“On the island of Sardinia, the word for ‘Friday’ is kenábura, from Latin cena pura ‘pure dinner’. It has been suggested that this name refers to the Sabbath meal. Even more interesting is the word kaputanni, which is Sardinian for ‘September’. It is a literal translation of Rosh Hashanah ‘head of the year’. We know that Jews were exiled to Sardinia in the year 19 by the Emperor Tiberius. If these Sardinian words are really the result of that expulsion, it would suggest that a Judeo-Roman type of speech existed during the first century of the Common Era. But none of this evidence is conclusive, and for the moment, all our conclusions must remain tentative.”
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Jochnowitz, G. 1978. Judeo-Romance Languages. In: Paper, H.H. ed. Jewish Languages: Theme and Variations, Proceedings of Regional Conferences of the Association for Jewish Studies Held at The University of Michigan and New York University in March-April 1975. Massachusetts: Association for Jewish Studies.
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