Ladino is a
Romance language with a vocabulary derived mainly from Old
Castilian,
Hebrew, Turkish and some French and Greek. Speakers are currently almost exclusively
Sephardic Jews, for example, in (or from)
Thessaloniki,
Istanbul 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,
Portuguese,
French,
Turkish,
Greek, and
South Slavic languages depending on the geographic origin of the speaker.
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