Judeo-Spanish
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Judeo-Spanish
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, an American scholar of Judeo-Spanish music at Cambridge University, has spent the last 15 years collecting and archiving the voices of aging Jews in Morocco.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2022
It’s also known as Judeo-Spanish, because the tongue was carried across the Mediterranean and sustained for centuries by the Sephardic Jews who had been driven out of Spain.
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2019
The director of the RAE, Darío Villanueva, described Judeo-Spanish as “an extraordinarily important cultural and historical phenomenon” that was overdue an academy of its own.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2017
Yasmin Levy The Israeli singer Yasmin Levy has devoted herself to preserving Sephardic songs in the Judeo-Spanish language Ladino.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2011
She sings it several more times, making sure I know each word and pronounce it properly in Ladino—the old Judeo-Spanish her ancestors spoke.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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