User:Universal Life/Original Sephardic Dialects
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There are three variants of Judaeo-Spanish, namely; The Haketia Variant, The Levantine Variant and The Ponentine Variant.
This is a rough classification of Judaeo-Spanish dialects based on the existed/existing communities. The short-term purpose is to make a list of all communities and the long-term purpose is to point out all the differences and variations existing/existed between the variants of the Judaeo-Spanish language spoken by these communities; and then also the dialects can be reclassified accordingly. As the terms variant, subvariant, dialect and subdialect in linguistics are quite indefinite, here, a rather simple and easy approach with the terminology has been applied. The term macrolect here refers to the language of a particular community alone, disregarding whether it's the same subdialect with another community's subdialect or whether it's a dialect or subdialect of its own.
The very often term "spoken" used below, doesn't imply that it's spoken now, but that rather it used to be the original location for that subdialect to be spoken (the original place the community used to live). (In brackets), the names of the places are given in Judaeo-Spanish, however most of them except the Greek cities' names are guesses, therefore needs correction.