14 Facts About Judaeo-Spanish

Judaeo-Spanish or Judeo-Spanish, known as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish.

Core vocabulary of Judaeo-Spanish is Old Spanish, and it has numerous elements from the other old Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula: Old Aragonese, Astur-Leonese, Old Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, and Mozarabic.

Judaeo-Spanish has absorbed some words from the local languages but sometimes Hispanicised their form: bilbilico, from Persian bulbul.

Judaeo-Spanish is distinguished from other Spanish dialects by the presence of the following features:.

Judaeo-Spanish is traditionally written in a Hebrew-based script, specially in Rashi script and its Solitreo cursive variant.

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Judaeo-Spanish was the common language of Salonika during the Ottoman period.

Judaeo-Spanish was a language used in Donmeh rites .

Judaeo-Spanish is in a serious danger of extinction because many native speakers today are elderly olim, who have not transmitted the language to their children or grandchildren.

Films partially or totally in Judaeo-Spanish include Mexican film Novia que te vea, The House on Chelouche Street, and Every Time We Say Goodbye.

In 2001, the Jewish Publication Society published the first English translation of Judaeo-Spanish folktales, collected by Matilda Koen-Sarano, Folktales of Joha, Jewish Trickster: The Misadventures of the Guileful Sephardic Prankster.

The earliest Judaeo-Spanish books were religious in nature, mostly created to maintain religious knowledge for exiles who could not read Hebrew; the first of the known texts is Dinim de shehitah i bedikah .

The largest output of secular Judaeo-Spanish literature occurred during the latter half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries in the Ottoman Empire.

Judaeo-Spanish's was recently selected as one of the top ten world music artists by the We are Listening International World of Music Awards for her interpretations of the music.

Judaeo-Spanish's recorded residents of the Sephardic Home for the Aged, a nursing home in Coney Island, New York, singing songs from their childhood.