LADINO (JUDEO-ESPANHOL) - a língua dos judeus Sefarditas

Judeo-Spanish (Judeo-Espanyol, Ladino, Judezmo, גֿודֿיאו-איספאנייול) is an ancient Iberian language variety, based on Castilian Spanish, still spoken by about 50,000 Sephardic Jews worldwide, especially in Turkey, the Americas, Spain, and Israel. Judeo-Spanish separated from Spanish or Castilian Spanish after the expulsion of the Jews by Spain in 1492 and shortly thereafter by Portugal in 1496. There was also a Judeo-Portuguese language, which, however, became extinct a few centuries later. Most Sephardic Jews who spoke Ladino settled in the then Ottoman Empire, now Turkey, where they were welcomed. However, in the 20th century, the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the formation of the modern Turkish Republic saw the repression of minority languages, and the use of Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, suffered a great decline. Today, there is a movement, including in Brazil, to rescue and promote the use of Ladino among Sephardic Jews worldwide. Ladino has a large number of words borrowed from Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and Greek, and phonetically retains characteristics of medieval Castilian pronunciation that are absent from modern Spanish. Grammatically, a verb conjugation with a form similar to the "voseo" typical of Argentinian/Platense Spanish is noteworthy. Join the MOPC Mentorship program, learn several languages ​​for the price of one, learn scientific/historical linguistics, contact us by email = [email protected] LINK TO MOPC SUMMARIES IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES = https://tinyurl.com/bdxm3k8n