Ladino is an Iberian Romance leids descendit frae Auld Castillian. The leid cam aboot aifter the first Keeng an Queen o Spain, Ferdinand an Isabel, declared that Jewish fowk cuid nae langer bide in the lands o the new unitit kinrick o Spain. Thon wis cryed the Alhambra decree o 31 Mairch 31, 1492. Fowk that wis Jewish an haed been bidin in Iberia an spaekin leids descendit frae the Laitin lang syne wis gart tae fin new kintras tae bide in. The folk that flitted frae Spain haed taen new hames aw ower north Africa an sooth-east Europe, whaur thair kin bade, spaekin the leid, for generations.
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Ladino haes a wheen o wirds frae the Ebreu leid the nou —- an frae the French, Greek, an Turkis leids forbye —- but the mucklemaist pairt o the wirds is taen frae Auld Castillian. Monie sounds that hae vainisht in Modren Castillian is aye uised in Ladino, juist lik in Auld Castillian.
100,000 folk in Israel say thay ken the wey tae spaek Ladino. Thare's 8,000 spaekers forbye in Turkey, 1,000 in Greece, 300 in the Unitit States, an 150 in Bosnie an Herzegovinae.
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Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Ladino. |
Fremmit airtins
- lad.wikipedia.org, La Vikipedya en Judeo-Español, לה בֿיקיפידייה אין גֿודיו־איספאנײל
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