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 to | Malaysia |
| Region | Penang |
| Ethnicity | Malaysian Jews |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
| Hebrew | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Judeo-Malay (Malay: Yahudi-Melayu, Jawi: 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 languages in 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 that is currently kept in Microfilms of Alalay Manuscripts from the British Library's Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.