Judaeo-Spanish
language derived from Medieval Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews
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Summary
Judaeo-Spanish is a natural language[1]. Judaeo-Spanish ranks in the top 9% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,939 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Israel[3], Ottoman Empire[4]
- Instance of: modern language[5], dialect family[6]
- Subclass of: Judaeo-Romance[7], Castilian[8], Spanish[9]
- Writing system: Latin script[10], Hebrew-script-based alphabet[11], Cyrillic script[12]
- Part of: non-territorial languages of France[13]
- Commons category: Judaeo-Spanish language[14]
- Wikimedia language code: lad[15]
- Coordinate location: 40.7, 22.9[16]
- Topic's main category: Category:Judaeo-Spanish[17]
- Language regulatory body: Autoridad Nasionala del Ladino[18]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 137,000[19]
- Described by source: Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[20], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21]
- Native label: Lingua djudeo-espanyola[22], גﬞודיאו־איספאנייול[23], לאדינו[24], Ladino[25], Djudeo-espanyol[26]
- Different from: Judaeo-Spanish[27], Ladin[28]
- UNESCO language status: 4 severely endangered[29]
- Indigenous to: Jerusalem District[30], Spain[31]
- Studied by: Sephardic studies[32]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LAD[33]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q20827917[34]
- Ethnologue language status: 7 Shifting[35]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[36], syllabic language[37]
- Has grammatical gender: masculine[38], feminine[39]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Judaeo-Spanish-language films[40]
- Related category: Category:Judaeo-Spanish pronunciation[41]
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Influence
Things named for Judaeo-Spanish include Ladinos[42], an ethnic group[43].
Why It Matters
Judaeo-Spanish has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] Judaeo-Spanish is known by 140 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]
Entities named for Judaeo-Spanish include Ladinos[42], an ethnic group[43].