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	Ladino (djudeoespanyol) language
		Ladino, Judezmo or Judeo-Spanish is a language derived from medieval Castilian Spanish.
		There are currently about 700,000 speakers of Ladino in Israel, the USA and Argentina, although only about 200,000 of them use the language regularly.
		Ladino is also written with the Latin alphabet.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/ladino.htm (0 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - JUDÆO-SPANISH LANGUAGE (LADINO) AND LITERATURE: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Judæo-Spanish is a dialect composed of a mixture of Spanish and Hebrew elements, which is still used as the vernacular and as a literary language by the Sephardim or "Spagnioli," descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain and now scattered throughout Turkey, Servia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Palestine, and Morocco.
		Ladino is written in the so-called Spanish cursive characters, and is printed generally in rabbinical, though sometimes in square, Hebrew characters, and not seldom in Latin letters.
		The first Hebrew grammar in Ladino was published at Vienna in 1823; it was followed by several others (Smyrna, 1852; Bucharest, 1860), and by a "Diccionario de la Lengua Santa" (Constantinople, 1855), the explanations of each word being given in "la lengua Sephardis." Juvenile and popular works also were issued; e.g.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=591&letter=J (1718 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ladino language
		Ladino was the common language of Salonika during the period of Ottoman rule.
		Judeo-Spanish or Ladino is a language spoken by the Sephardim, Jews expelled from Spain in 1492.
		Markus, Shimon, Ha-safa ha-sefaradit-yehudit (the Judeo-Spanish language): Jerusalem, 1965
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ladino_language (2631 words)

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		Ladino is in serious danger of extinction because many native speakers today are elderly as well as elderly olim (immigrants to Israel), who have not transmitted the language to their children or grandchildren.
		Ladino was also a language used in Donmeh ("Dönme" in Turkish meaning convert and referring to adepts of Sabbatai Tsevi converted to Moslem religion by the Ottoman empire) rites.
		Ladino is in serious danger of extinction because many native speakers today are elderly olim (immigrants to Israel), who have not transmitted the language to their children or grandchildren.
	stron.frm.pl /wiki.php?title=Ladino_language (2647 words)

	Ladino, the Sephardic Language - Judeo-Spanish Judeo-Espagnol
		Ladino did not become a specifically Jewish language until after the expulsion from Spain in 1492 - it was merely the language of their province.
		Ladino was nowhere near as diverse as the various forms of Yiddish, but there were still two different dialects, which corresponded to the different origins of the speakers.
		'Oriental' Ladino was spoken in Turkey and Rhodes and reflected Castilian Spanish, whereas 'Western' Ladino was spoken in Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia, Serbia and Romania, and preserved the characteristics of northern Spanish and Portuguese.
	www.sephardicstudies.org /quickladino.html (651 words)

	The Federation of Zionist Youth - Publications - Young Zionist
		Ladino is to Sephardim what Yiddish is to Ashkenazim, an ancient dialect of Spanish which the Jews of Spain took with them when they were dispersed during the Spanish Inquisition (1492).
		Like any language, Ladino has evolved over the centuries, and words of Hebrew have been incorporated into its vocabulary, as well as words and sayings from the local tongues of the areas where Jews settled.
		Ladino was used in both home-life and religious ceremonies.
	www.fzy.org.uk /youngzionist/ladinospirit.shtml (399 words)

	Beth Hatefutsoth - Related Links
		Hebrew became an official language in British Palestine in 1921, and the primary official language of the state of Israel It is spoken by about 6,000,000 people, in Israel and abroad, of whom around 4,500,000 speak Hebrew as their mother-tongue.
		The Berber languages and dialects, spoken over a large area from western Egypt to Mauritania, are descendants of the native languages of North Africa and belong to the Berbero-Libyan group of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Hamito-Semitic) family of languages.
		Ladino is based on medieval Castilian variant of Spanish with large numbers of loan words from Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, Italian, and Slavic languages of the Balkans.
	www.bh.org.il /Links/JewishLangs.asp (2795 words)

	EJP \| News \| Western Europe \| Judeo-Spanish language revived
		Ladino traces its roots to the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian peninsular.
		Ladino was spoken wherever the exiles went, in Holland, Germany, Greece, Turkey and the Balkans.
		In later times Ladino was handed down from a mother to her children in the form of religious songs or ’Romancios’, songs and poems about love.
	www.ejpress.org /article/2998 (661 words)

	Courses - Ladino Studies At The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
		The dominant language in the responsa collections is Rabbinic Hebrew; but they also contain numerous passages in Ladino, the everyday ethnic language spoken and written by the majority of the Ottoman Sephardim into the modern era.
		The course will examine representative selections in Ladino appearing in Ottoman responsa collections from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries, and how they shed light on the Ladino language in its historical development, and on the unique culture which developed among the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire.
		The most important and influential language of contact was Ottoman Turkish, the administrative language of the empire and the language of its leading ethnic group.
	pluto.huji.ac.il /~msladino/courses.htm (852 words)

	Welcome to Los Tanyaderos (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ladino, the language of the Spanish Jews, emerged from the chaos that followed the Alhambra Decree, which expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492.
		The Castillian portion of the language, which was the grammatical structure (i.e., morphology and syntax) and a great majority of the lexical structure, remained static due to lack of contact with the motherland.
		Ladino in the United States has English borrowings, and dialects of all the remaining communities of the world have assimilated scientific and technological terminology, such as words for airplane, telephone, and computer.
	www.lostanyaderos.com /LosTanyaderos.htm?cart=1127486158147094 (2173 words)

	Language Museum - Ladino (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ladino is based on the language spoken by the Sephardim in Spain more than 500 years ago.
		In Turkey, Sephardim kept this language and enriched it by adding new words from Turkish, Greek, Italian, French and other languages, and this is the way it has come to our day.
		We, the descendants of the Jewish exiles from Iberia, still speak this language and hope to keep it alive forever.
	www.language-museum.com /l/ladino.htm (127 words)

	Ladino --- A Lost Language?
		This is the way Avner Peretz, Director of the Institute of Ladino in the Jerusalem suburb of Maale Adumim described his efforts to record the the Sephardic equivalent of Yiddish before much of it vanishes.
		In the Balkans and Turkey it was called Ladino, a corruption of the word "Latin" used to distinguish it from Turkish.
		The classic of Ladino Literature is clearly Me-am Lo'ez, a monumental work of biblical commentary and talmudic tradition written in systematic form for the layman.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0798/ladino1.asp (0 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for ladino
		Genetically ladinos may be of Indian, African, or mixed descent.
		Ladino is a very archaic form of Castilian Spanish, mixed with Hebrew elements.
		Teaching "Ladino Language and Culture" and "Aspects of the Sephardic Tradition": Hopes, Fruits, Experiences.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=ladino (693 words)

	languagehat.com: KEEPING LADINO ALIVE.
		Ladino language and culture enthusiasts in Israel and abroad are continuing the work, scouring bookshops and attics for overlooked Ladino writings.
		Eliezer Papo, the coordinator of a new Ladino culture center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, said Ladino enthusiasts are taking their cue from the United States, where people are encouraged to celebrate their diverse cultures.
		She's 30 years old and she does speak the language (which is more or less intelligible to a Spanish speaker - I can understand it- as Spanish is more or less to her).
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001398.php (1307 words)

	HUC-JIR > News & Publications > HUC-JIR News > Press Release
		Ladino was his first language; and growing up, he learned Ladino songs from his parents and relatives.
		Cantor Botton explains "Ladino language and culture is to Sephardic Jews what Yiddish is to Ashkenazi Jews." He has been traveling around the country performing Ladino concerts in order to help people undertand its charm, beauty, and wisdom.
		Living Ladino is part of an ongoing initiative at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to integrate Sephardic Studies into its curriculum and to increase exposure to Sephardic history and traditions among students in HUC-JIR's rabbinical, cantorial, education and communal service graduate programs.
	www.huc.edu /newspubs/pressroom/2002/ladino.shtml (282 words)

	Jewish Standard For love of Ladino (Site not responding. Last check: )
		What he did not leave behind was his love for Ladino, a language he describes as "muy hermozo" (very beautiful).
		Ladino, otherwise known as Judeo-Spanish, is the spoken and written Hispanic language of Jews of Spanish origin.
		Enrique Levy, founder of the Ladino Club at the JCC on the Palisades, recently attended an Israeli gathering of Ladino speakers.
	www.jstandard.com /articles/2596/1/For-love-of-Ladino (613 words)

	Ladino language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
		The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
		Two years ago, the British government dropped compulsory foreign language lessons for GCSE students, an act of philistinism that should have never have gone through.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Ladino_language.html (681 words)

	Ladino - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ladino, Romance language derived from 15th-century Spanish (Castilian), spoken (generally as a second or third language) primarily in Israel but...
		During the golden age of Jewish life in the Iberian peninsula (between the 8th and the 12th centuries), Jews took part in the musical life of their...
		Between 1502 and 1518, Spain shipped out hundreds of Spanish-born Africans, called Ladinos, to work as labourers, especially in the mines.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Ladino.html (136 words)

	"Ladino: Alive in Song, If Not Speech - Forward.com"
		Today there are not many opportunities to hear the language spoken, but there have been a few recent occasions to hear it sung.
		She was born in Colombia in 1971, where her only connection to Ladino music was the songs her grandmother used to sing.
		Since the Ladino language had been used for centuries to sing about the uprooting of the Sephardim, Mayesh felt it would be ideal for expressing his empathy for the displaced Japanese.
	www.forward.com /articles/ladino-alive-in-song-if-not-speech (946 words)

	Ladino language information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Adopting 15th century orthography for Ladino would bring back into existence the /s/ (originally /ts/) - c (before e and i) and ç/z (cedilla): such in caça, which was a letter of Spanish origin, the /s/ - ss : such as in passo and the [ʃ] - x : like in dixo.
		The language was known as Yahudice (Jewish language) in the Ottoman Empire.
		Ladino was the common language in the Ottoman city of Salonika, captured by Greece in 1912 and subsequently renamed Thessaloniki.
	www.search.com /reference/Ladino_language (1894 words)

	The Ladino Language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ladino's origins are similar to those of Yiddish, in that they both combine Hebrew and local language(s).
		As the Ladino language developed during the 15th and 16th centuries, it grew to include Arabic, Turkish, Greek, French and Italian.
		Ladino spread throughout the Mediterranean after Spain expelled it's Jews in 1492, and is currently spoken by about 160,000 Jews in Turkey, the Balkans, North Africa, Israel and the Americas.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/Ladino.html (165 words)

	j. - Habla Ladino? Sephardim meet to preserve language
		In an attempt to revive the Ladino language over date cakes and coffee, a group of South Bay Sephardim is coming together monthly for camaraderie and cultural activities.
		Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, is a patois of 15th-century Spanish, Hebrew and several other Mediterranean languages.
		Stella Filler of Palo Alto was born in Tangiers, though her mother, Miriam Coriat, also a member of the Ladino club, was born a Spanish subject at a military base in North Africa.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7777/format/html/displaystory.html (1002 words)

	Ladino (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The classic of Ladino Literature is clearly Me-am Lo'ez, a monumental work of biblical commentary and talmudic tradition written in systematic form for the layman.
		A visitor is taken to a bookcase and is shown a bound volume of Ha-Shofar, a Zionist newspaper written in Ladino and published in the beginning of the century in Bulgaria.
		The shuls where Ladino was lingua franca in Jerusalem's Yemin Moshe and Ohel Moshe neighborhoods are but memories of the past.
	www.tulane.edu /~abarroc/_disc1/00000012.htm (793 words)

	The Ladino Music Hall:Save The Ladino Music
		The Ladino Music Hall will eventually include not only music, but also lyrics, translation, transliteration, historical information and biographical notes about authors and performers.
		The Ladino Music Hall is designed to serve and support all Ladino Music enthusiasts, students and performers.
		At Save the Music's Ladino Music Hall, we are trying to bring old and new generations together, to share and enjoy the same music and traditions.
	savethemusic.com /ladino (0 words)

	The Ladino Language
		The dialect, or maybe it is a separate language, is commonly called, Ladino.
		Another major difference between Ladino and modern Spanish is in the word for God.
		Other possible Ladino elements were the including of an extra "n" in many words and of reversing the "r" with another letter.
	home.earthlink.net /~benven/ladino.html (620 words)

	Wandering Thoughts on the Sephardim and Their Language, Ladino
		Ladino is, as the young Damián described it, an archaic language.
		It is largely fifteenth-century Spanish that lost direct contact with the parent language, thus acquiring elements of another language or languages, depending on the country or countries in which the exiles ultimately settled.
		Both languages, eleventh-century German and fifteenth-century Spanish, in their time suffered phonetic distortions through the use of Hebraic characters in the transliteration of the languages.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~library/Library_Bulletin/Apr1990/LB-A90-Levenson.html (3224 words)

	Student Mentor Weblog - Students - Digital Learning Commons
		This language, called Ladino, is descended from the Castilian spoken in central Spain in the 1300s and 1400s.
		Older generations may speak Ladino elsewhere, but because of the continued oppression and upheaval of Jewish communities the language is being replaced.
		There are some efforts to revive the language, and I hope you all think about the diversity of languages and cultures related to Spain, Spanish, Castilian, and Latin American cultures and societies.
	www.learningcommons.org /students/studentmentors/blog/2006/12/the_mystery_of.php (498 words)

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