Re: Yiddish

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 23:44:46 -0800 Mike Adams <abrigon@...> writes:
> What about Ladino? 13th or so Spanish lingo spoken by many Spanish
> Jews
> (or former Spanish, 1492, mass expulsion), similiar relationship to
> Spanish as Yiddish is to German.
>
> Mike
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What about it?  :-)
Well, it's also called Judezmo (with {j} /Z/ or /dZ/ and {z} /z/, not
like modern Spanish).
In the Medieval Spaniard Hebrew Secular Poetry class i took last
semester, one of the last classes the instructor showed us a video,
almost completely in Ladino/Judezmo (with English subtitles) about
medieval Sephardic culture.  It's very mutually intelligeable with modern
Spanish, since i pretty much understood what was being said after having
taken 4 years of Spanish in highschool.
A friend of mine's mother, who's Sephardic from Egypt - she speaks
Ladino, but not Arabic, interestingly - is part of a Ladino theater group
who put on plays every so often, i think at the Spanish-Portuguese
Synagogue in Manhattan.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "do not fear night terror, nor the arrow that flies by day."