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Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym djudeoespanyol, Hebrew script: גﬞודﬞיאו־איספאנייול ), [3] also known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish. Originally spoken in Spain, and then after the Edict of Expulsion spreading through the Ottoman Empire (the Balkans, Turkey, West Asia, and North Africa ...
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Judeo-Spanish has been written in Hebrew characters later referred to as Rashi script and in handwriting called Solitreo. Printed materials were written in either Rashi script or in square Hebrew letters, rarely vocalized. Judeo-Spanish developed a conventional spelling system to represent Judeo-Spanish words in Hebrew characters, which became stan...
Sephardic Jews, like other Jewish communities, considered Hebrew to be the language of learning, the holy language. Therefore, a great amount of the literature written by Sephardic Jews was in Hebrew rather than in Judeo-Spanish (Romero 1992a). Very little was preserved in Judeo-Spanish prior to the expulsion, some exceptions being Coplas de Yosef ...
Several linguistic features are common to all Judeo-Spanish dialects and distinguish Judeo-Spanish from other varieties of Spanish. A few of the features are listed here (Crews 1935; Benoliel 1977;Zamora Vicente1985: 349-377; Bunis 1992: 414-420; Bunis 1999; Bunis 1999, 2018: 199-202; Marcus 1965: 70-95; Wagner 1990(I): 116-135; Penny 2000: 174-193...
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- Ladino was once the primary language spoken by Sephardic Jews throughout the Mediterranean. From the Spanish Inquisition until World War II, Ladino was the primary language spoken by thousands and thousands of Jews throughout the Mediterranean.
- While primarily based on Spanish, Ladino has vocabulary from several other languages. Ladino, also known as Judeo-Spanish and Judezmo, is essentially 15th-century Spanish, but it also has words mixed in from Portuguese, French, Italian, Arabic, Greek, Turkish and Hebrew.
- Ladino was an oral tradition for centuries. It was first written in Rashi (or solitreo) script, then with Hebrew letters, and now primarily with Latin script.
- Ladino is a rich source of Jewish poetry, proverbs, folktales and more. One collection of folktales we recommend is Folktales of Joha, Jewish Trickster collected by Matilda Koen-Sarano.
T 1:45 PM-4:44 PM. 2023A. Judaeo-Spanish is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish. In Israel, Judaeo-Spanish is commonly referred to as Ladino, and it is known locally as Judezmo, Espanyol, Djudeo-Espanyol, Djudezmo, and Spaniolit, among others. As a Jewish language, it is primarily influenced by Hebrew and Aramaic, but it is also ...
Judeo-Spanish -- also known as Ladino -- mixes 16th-century Spanish, Hebrew, Turkish and other languages. My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help. Judeo-Spanish (JS) is a language of Hispanic stock spoken and written by Jews of Spanish origin. Its phonology, morphology, and lexicon derive, for the most part, from pre-16th ...
Judeo-Spanish (widely known as Ladino), based on Old Spanish but later accruing influences from Greek, Turkish, Arabic, French, and other languages, was the principal language of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 who settled principally in the Ottoman Empire and part of northern Morocco and then spread around the globe. Varieties of ...
The Judeo-Spanish taught at Inalco (also known as ladino) is a language whose cultural and symbolic significance far exceeds the current number of speakers: both within Judaism (due to the prestige of medieval Spanish Judaism and the symbolic weight of the extermination of Europe's Judeo-Spanish communities during the Shoah) and outside (due to its conservatory aspects of Spanish culture, its ...
