Talk:Zarphatic language
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was there an ethnic name for zarphatic speaking jews?
[edit] Ethnonym for Tzarfatit-speaking Jews
As far as I'm aware, there was no ethnonym for this community other than simply "Jewish". There were Jews in the community who were expatriates from Spain, but in those days, Sfaradim and Ashkenazim were names that had far more to do with where a person came from, than to do with distinctions between communities. Remember, Tzarfatit died out as a spoken and written language, as a result of persecutions and population movements, a century before the expulsion from Spain. Northern France was a crossroads of northern Europe, and for the Jewish communities, at that time, it consisted far more of roads than of towns. Specific ethnonyms are the kind of thing that take community cohesion to develop. :-/ Tomer TALK 00:56, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] french research
i've off and on been attempting to do some research on the french language- i don't think i'll be able to contribute much to an article on zarphatic without having some knowledge of french- and the research seems to get more and more complicated as time goes by.
a big problem is, it often seems difficult to distinguish what's a language and what's a dialect.
in retrospect, i wish i'd taken french back in college. i will if i ever go back to college.
Gringo300 16:28, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
