Judeo-Malay

Judeo-Malay
Yahudi-Melayu, יאהודי-מֱלאיו
A Judeo-Malay word list from circa 1900 from a notepad belonging to Rahamim Jacob Cohen.
Native toMalaysia
RegionPenang
EthnicityMalaysian Jews
Extinct(date missing)
Hebrew
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone

Judeo-Malay (Malay: Bahasa Yahudi-Melayu, Jawi: بهاس يهودي-ملايو, Hebrew: מלאית-יהודית) is a variant of the Malay language once spoken or written by the Jews of Penang, a state located in northern Peninsular Malaysia. Judeo-Malay is the only known recorded Jewish language of the Austronesian family. The surviving manuscripts of Judeo-Malay are recorded on a notepad of an Iranian Jew by the name of Rahamim Jacob Cohen, which is currently kept in the Microfilms of Alalay Manuscripts from the British Library's Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.