 Ladino:
a language of IsraelSIL
Summer Institute of Linguistics
| Population |
100,000 or more in Israel (1985). Population
total all countries 160,000 or fewer (1992). |
| Region |
Ethnic group members also in Salonica, Greece;
Sofia, Bulgaria; Yugoslavia. Formerly also in Morocco. Also spoken in Puerto Rico, Turkey
(Europe), USA. |
| Alternate Names |
JUDEO SPANISH, SEFARDI, DZHUDEZMO, JUDEZMO,
SPANYOL, HAQUETIYA |
| Dialects |
JUDEZMO (JUDYO, JIDYO), LADINO, HAQUETIYA
(HAKETIA, HAKETIYA, HAKITIA). |
| Classification |
Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western,
Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian. |
| Comments |
The Balkan dialect is more influenced by Turkish
and Greek. The North African dialect is more influenced by Arabic and French. There are no
monolinguals. It is not the dominant language for most speakers. Formerly the main
language of Sefardic Jewry. 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. Different from Ladin in the
Rhaeto-Romansch group. The Hebrew (Rashi) alphabet does not work well because of the need
to differentiate vowels. Yet there are texts in Hebrew script. Newspapers, radio programs.
Jewish. Bible 1829. |
Also spoken in Turkey
| Language Name |
LADINO |
| Population |
8,000 or fewer first language speakers out of
15,000 people in Turkey (1976). |
| Alternate Names |
DZHUDEZMO, JUDEO SPANISH, SEFARDI, JUDEZMO,
HAKITIA, HAKETIA, SPANYOL |
| Comments |
Nearly all are bilingual in Turkish. Chief
language of Sefardic Jews. The Donme are a Ladino-speaking group in Turkey, adherents of
Shabbetai Zevi (Zvi). Roman. Newspapers. Jewish. Bible 1829. See main entry under Israel. |
ISO 639 Code: lad
ISO 639-2: lad
English: Ladino
French: judéo-espagnol
The code lad is classified in ISO 639 as an individual language code.
This code corresponds to the following language in the Ethnologue:
LADINO |
[SPJ] Israel. 100,000 or more in Israel (1985). Population total
all countries 160,000 or fewer (1992). Alternate names: JUDEO SPANISH, SEFARDI, DZHUDEZMO,
JUDEZMO, SPANYOL, HAQUETIYA. Dialects: JUDEZMO (JUDYO, JIDYO), LADINO, HAQUETIYA (HAKETIA,
HAKETIYA, HAKITIA). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western,
Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian.
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