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Judaeo-Spanish

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Judaeo-Spanish

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Also known as Ladino language, lad, Judæo-Spanish, Judeo-Spanish, Judæo Spanish, Judeo Spanish, Judaeo Spanish, judezmo

Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym , Hebrew script: ), also known as Ladino or Judezmo, Sephardi or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish.

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Judaeo-Spanish is a Romance language that developed from Old Spanish and was spoken by Sephardic Jewish communities, particularly after they were expelled from Spain in the late 1400s. It remains significant today as a marker of Sephardic cultural and linguistic heritage, connecting speakers to centuries of Jewish history and identity.

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Language.name
Judaeo-Spanish
Language.altname
Ladino / לאדינו
Language.image
Judaeo-Spanish_in_Rashi_and_Soletreo.png
Language.imagescale
1.45
Language.image_class
skin-invert-image
Language.imagealt
judeoespañol / djudeo-espanyol
Language.imagecaption
Judeoespañol in Solitreo and Rashi scripts
Language.states
Spain, Israel, Turkey, Greece (12 reported 2017), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 as of 2022), Morocco (Ḥaketía dialect), Brazil (Ḥaketía dialect), Algeria (Tetuani Dialect)
Language.region
Mediterranean Basin (native region), formerly also the Americas
Language.ethnicity
Sephardic Jews
Language.date
2018
Language.ref
e25
Language.familycolor
Indo-European
Language.fam2
Italic
Language.fam3
Latino-Faliscan
Language.fam4
Latin
Language.fam5
Romance
Language.fam6
Italo-Western

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
Spanish
Country
Ottoman Empire
Image
Judaeo-Spanish in Rashi and Soletreo.png
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linguistic typology
syllabic language
different from
Ladin
language regulatory body
Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino
Commons category
Judaeo-Spanish language
topic's main category
Category:Judaeo-Spanish
Wikimedia language code
lad
writing system
Cyrillic script
native label
Djudeo-espanyol
number of speakers, writers, or signers
137000
has grammatical gender
feminine
indigenous to
Spain
exact match
publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LAD
category for films in this language
Category:Judaeo-Spanish-language films
described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
P10369
Kilchoman distillery
P13311
Liu Gong
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Encyclopedic overview

36 sections
Contents
  • Name
  • Origins
  • Source languages
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese and other Iberian languages
  • Hebrew and Aramaic
  • Turkish
  • French
  • Arabic
  • Other source languages
  • Varieties
  • Phonology
  • Consonants
  • Vowels
  • Phonological differences from Spanish
  • Morphology
  • Verb conjugation
  • Syntax
  • Orthography
  • Hebrew script
  • Latin script
  • Historical orthographies
  • History
  • Literature
  • Religious use
  • Modern education and use
  • Samples
  • Comparison with other languages
  • Songs
  • Dialectal differences
  • Selected words by origin
  • Modern singers
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish (autonym , Hebrew script: ), also known as Ladino or Judezmo, Sephardi or Spaniolit, is a Romance language derived from Castilian Old Spanish.

It has been spoken by Sephardic Jews since they were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula after the Edict of Expulsion, and with their migrations it spread throughout the Ottoman Empire (the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, West Asia, and North Africa) as well as France, Italy, the Netherlands, Morocco, and England. It is today spoken mainly by Sephardic minorities in more than 30 countries, with most speakers residing currently in Israel. Although it has no official status in any country, it has been acknowledged as a minority language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, and France. In 2017, it was formally recognised by the Royal Spanish Academy.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Judaeo-Spanish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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