Ladino language


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Ladino language
Ladino is a Romance language with a vocabulary derived mainly from Old CastilianHebrew, Turkish and some French and Greek. Speakers are currently almost exclusively Sephardic Jews, for example, in (or from) ThessalonikiIstanbul and Izmir. Ladino has kept the postalveolar phonemes and of Old Castilian, which both changed to the velar  in modern Castilian; Ladino also has an phoneme taken over from Hebrew. In some places it has also retained certain characteristic words, such as muestro for nuestro (our). Its grammatical structure is close to that of Castilian, with the addition of many terms from the Hebrew,  PortugueseFrenchTurkishGreek, and South Slavic languages depending on the geographic origin of the speaker.
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