Judeo-Spanish
n. Ladino, Spanish dialect based on old Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in Hebrew script | ||||
Search Dictionary:
Judeo-Spanish definition was found in categories: Language, Idioms & Slang(1) Encyclopedia(1)
Judeo-Spanish Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| WordNet 2.0 |
Judeo-Spanish
Noun
1. the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script
(synonym) Ladino
(hypernym) Spanish
Noun
1. the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script
(synonym) Ladino
(hypernym) Spanish
Judeo-Spanish Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Ladino language
Ladino is a Romance language with a vocabulary derived mainly from Old Castilian, Hebrew, Turkish and some French and Greek. Speakers are currently almost exclusively Sephardic Jews, for example, in (or from) Thessaloniki, Istanbul and Izmir.
Ladino has kept the postalveolar phonemes and of Old Castilian, which both changed to the velar in modern Castilian; Ladino also has an phoneme taken over from Hebrew. In some places it has also retained certain characteristic words, such as muestro for nuestro (our). Its grammatical structure is close to that of Castilian, with the addition of many terms from the Hebrew, Portuguese, French, Turkish, Greek, and South Slavic languages depending on the geographic origin of the speaker.
| See more at Wikipedia.org... |