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Oct 18, 2018 · Were you aware that there is another composite language, which contains Hebrew and other Semitic languages, that is an offshoot of Spanish, called Ladino? Ladino is classified as a Judeo-Spanish Romance language. In Spanish, it's called djudeo-espanyol or ladino. In English, the language is also known as Sephardic, Crypto-Jewish, or Spanyol.
Oct 21, 2020 · (The language that the Israelites of the Sephardic rite speak is neither the Spanish of Madrid, nor Castilian, nor Andalusian, nor Galician, nor any other dialect. Rather, it is an amalgam of all the above dialects, those which were spoken in the 15th century, at the time of the exile of the Jews).
Please know, also, that Ashkenazim continued to speak Yiddish – a Germanic language – long after leaving German-speaking lands. Yiddish was the daily language of Jews in places like Russia, Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, Slovakia and Czechia, Hungary, and Romania for hundreds of years – and none of those places were primarily German-speaking.
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 ...
Like Yiddish, Ladino is viewed as a personal language of the Jewish people. It’s sometimes called “ “–“our Spanish”–and everything about it is tied to the ideas of home and identity. When Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, they carried “their” Spanish with them, and so the Judeo-Spanish language moved throughout the ...
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Jun 14, 2023 · Ladino originated in Spain among the country’s Jewish population. When Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492 (including my ancestors who ended up in Morocco), they carried with them their language. The origin of Ladino is quite similar to that of Yiddish and other Jewish languages. These Jewish languages typically consist of a host country ...
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Jun 12, 2017 · Ladino is a pan-Mediterranean language that crosses geographic, linguistic and cultural boundaries. Otherwise known as Judeo-Spanish, Ladino is the hybrid dialect that Jews from the Iberian ...
