Re: Conlang as a divider from others

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:58:37 -0800 abrigon <abrigon@...> writes:
> Sort of how the Mormons invented Desearat(sp), and the writing system
> for it. So that a member could talk to another.
> Of course sometimes those secret lingos backfire and cause
> those who have problems with a "strange"group, having more
> reasons (in their minds, paranoia).. Causing friction.
>
> Mike
> PS: Yissish also has a bit of Slavic and Hebrew forms and words.
> Of course has anyone heard of "Ladino".
Ladino is the (real) Sephardic 'Yiddish'*....Judeo-Spanish, as opposed to
Judeo-German.  I think it's actually much closer to Spanish (albeit
medieval Spanish) than Yiddish is to German.  Less Hebraicisms, if i
remember correctly.  I also seem to remember reading that some time
during the past few centuries someone got the idea to write Ladino in the
Latin script instead of the Hebrew one.  My Yiddish textbook last year
had a short article about "other Jewish Languages" with a picture of the
first page in a Ladino bible-translation, written in the Hebrew alphabet.

* "real" as in the Judaic language of Sephardim (=spaniards), not
including the Eidot-Hamizrahh, etc.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."

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