Lachoudisch was a dialect of

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, containing many

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and

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words, native to the

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n town of Schopfloch. It was created in the sixteenth century. Few speakers remained after

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, and it went extinct sometime after.

History

Lachoudisch formed in the 16th century as Jewish citizens found it convenient to trade secrets in a language non-Jews could not understand. The language spread within the community and eventually some non-Jews knew it too. As the Jewish community of Schopfloch mostly emigrated abroad and the remained were eradicated by 1939, the language entered serious decline, and eventually went extinct.

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Lachoudisch contained several

and

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many of which reflected the Jewish community's hostility to

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and government authority.

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