[Artículo] Reporte Ethonologue sobre el Ladino

La reconocida Revista Ethnologue ha publicado esta definición sobre la lengua:


Normalización del idioma: ISO 639-3: lad

Population      100,000 in Israel (1985). Population total all countries: 110,310.

Region      Ethnic group members also in Salonica, Greece; Sofia, Bulgaria. Formerly also in Morocco. Also in Greece, Puerto Rico, Turkey (Europe), United States.

Alternate names       Dzhudezmo, Haquetiya, Judeo Spanish, Judezmo, Sefardi, Spanyol

Dialects      Judezmo (Judyo, Jidyo), Ladino, Haquetiya (Haketia, Haketiya, Hakitia). The Balkan dialect is more influenced by Turkish [tur] and Greek [ell]. The North African dialect is more influenced by Arabic and French.

Classification      Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian

Language use      Not the dominant language for most. Formerly the main language of Sephardic Jewry. All also use Hebrew [heb].

Language development      Newspapers. Radio programs. Bible: 1829.

Writing system      Hebrew script, does not work well because of the need to differentiate vowels. Latin script, used in Turkey.

Comments      The name Dzhudezmo is used by Jewish linguists and Turkish Jews; Judeo-Spanish by Romance philologists; Ladino by laymen, especially in Israel; Hakitia by Moroccan Jews;
Spanyol by some others. Different from Ladin in the Rhaeto-Romansch group. Jewish.







Also spoken in:
Turkey (Europe)

Language name       Ladino

Population      8,000 in Turkey (1976). Ethnic population: 15,000.

Region      Mainly Istanbul; some in Izmirin.

Alternate names      Dzhudezmo, Haketia, Hakitia, Judeo Spanish, Judezmo, Sefardi, Spanyol

Language use      Chief language of Sephardic Jews. The Donme are a Ladino-speaking group in Turkey, adherents of Shabbetai Zevi (Zvi). Also use Turkish [tur].

Comments      Jewish.