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Ladino language


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    • Dzhudezmo language
    • Eastern Judezmo language
    • Espanyol language (Ladino)
    • Espanyolit language
    • Franco Espanyol language
    • Haketia language (Ladino)
    • Hakitia language (Ladino)
    • Jidyo language
    • Judaeo-Spanish language
    • Judeo-Castilian language
    • Judeo-Espagnol language
    • Judeo-Español language
    • Judeo-Espanyol language
    • Judeo-Spanish language
    • Judesmo language
    • Judezmo language
    • Judyo language
    • Ladino Sephardic language
    • Sefardi language
    • Sephardi language
    • Sephardic language
    • Spaniol language
    • Spanyol language
    • Spanyolit language
    • Western Judeo-Spanish language
    • Žargon language
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    • found: Bunis, D.M. A lexicon of the Hebrew and Aramaic elements in modern Judezmo, 1993.
    • found: Barton, T.I. Judezmo (Judeo Castilian) dictionary, 2008:What is Judezmo? (Judezmo is the language of the Sephardim Jews; also known as Judeo-Castilian (Ladino); the Judezmo language; over time Judeo-Castilian became known as Judeo-Spanish and around 1899 it became known as Ladino; the Jewish language known today as Ladino Sephardic; Ladino Sephardic is also known as Judeo-Espanyol or Judezmo)
    • found: Ethnologue, via WWW, Nov. 19, 2018(Ladino; a language of Israel; also spoken in Turkey; alternative names: Judeo Spanish, Judeo-Espagnol, Sefardi, Sephardic, Spanyol, Dzhudezmo, Haketia, Hakitia, Judezmo; location: Jerusalem district and scattered; classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian; The name Dzhudezmo is used by Jewish linguists and Turkish Jews, Judeo-Spanish by Romance philologists, Ladino by laymen (especially in Israel), Hakitia by Moroccan Jews, Spanyol by some others)
    • found: Encyc. Britannica online, Nov. 19, 2018(Ladino language, also called Judeo-Spanish, Judesmo, or Sephardi, Romance language spoken by Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey. A very archaic form of Castilian Spanish mixed somewhat with Hebrew elements (as well as Aramaic, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, French, Bulgarian, and Italian), Ladino originated in Spain and was carried to its present speech areas by the descendants of the Spanish Jews who were expelled from Spain after 1492)
    • found: Jewish languages (Website), Nov. 29, 2023:Languages > Judeo-Spanish/Judezmo/Ladino (Judeo-Spanish is a language used by Jews originating from Spain; The language is known as Spanyolit or Espanyolit (in Israel), Espanyol, Ladino, Romance, Franco Espanyol, Judeo-Espanyol, Jidyo or Judyo, Judezmo, Zargon, etc., in the Ottoman Empire communities, and either Hakitia or just Espanyol in North Africa. Other names are used as well, but Judezmo (meaning Judaism, too), Ladino, or Judeo-Espanyol (Judeo-Spanish) are the most common. It should be noted that among some scholars Ladino is used to denote the Judeo-Spanish mirror-image type language of liturgical translations from Hebrew; still spoken: Israel, Turkey, and a few isolated places in the Balkans, Europe, and the USA)
    • found: Arnold, Rafael D. Judeo-Romance varieties, 2018, via De Gruyter website, viewed Nov. 29, 2023:p. 321 (Judeo-Spanish, the language of the expelled Jews from Iberia (known as the Sephardim); Judaeo-Spanish (Judezmo, Ladino)) p. 324 (Judeo-Spanish (or Judezmo)) pp. 325-326 (Several names refer to this language: Judezmo, Spanyolit or Espanyolit (in Israel), Ladino, Judyo or Jidyo, Žargon. In the academic world, it is generally known as Judeo-Spanish (or judeo-español) for the spoken and written language of the Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire communities (some researchers refer to it as Eastern Judezmo). A good number of the Sephardim also headed for North Africa and settled mainly in Morocco. Their variety is called Haketia (or Western Judeo-Spanish). In comparison, Eastern Judezmo developed in a similar fashion to the Spanish that the Sephardim took to Northern Africa. Regarding the similarities between Eastern Judezmo and Haketia, they are comparable due to their base of primarily Castilian vocabulary, yet distinct in that Judezmo relies on linguistic resources from languages such as Turkish, French, Italian and others, while Haketia benefits directly from Arabic. The term Ladino sometimes serves to denote the spoken and written language of the Sephardim; however, among scholars it is exclusively used to denote the Judeo-Spanish mirror-image type language of liturgical translations from Hebrew (and Aramaic), while Judeo-Spanish or Judezmo refer to the vernacular; Judeo-Spanish is both a Jewish language and a Romance language)
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    • PC4813-PC4813.95
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    • 1986-02-11: new
    • 2024-05-31: revised
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