Ladino

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A Spanish-based language spoken by Jewish people whose families came from Spain, often written in Hebrew letters

noun
/ləˈdiːnoʊ/

: ladino

Indians are poorer and less educated, to be sure, but they are strikingly similar to ladinos in the attitudes, values, and participation levels measured here.

Examples

Power and social relations continue more or less as they were prior to the 1960s: Ladino elites control politics, land, and capital.

Academic text (2003)
On the other side, Protestants, the small number of ladinos in the town, and many indigenous Catholics combined to support the national government.

Academic text (1994)
Numerous Indians and poor ladinos joined with him and supported the Agrarian Reform Law and the government.

Academic text (1994)
As expected, the demographic data reveal sharp differences between self-identified indigenous respondents and ladinos.

Academic text (2000)
Thus, the two social capital differences detected between Indians and ladinos in 1995 appear to arise not from ethnicity but from different educational and economic statuses.

Academic text (2000)
In 1804, we estimate that Spaniards and ladinos numbered approximately 125,000, which suggests an Indian total of about 292,000.

Academic text (1996)
The assertion of cultural rights in this case is not "identity politics" but a new political framework for Maya-Ladino social relations; it is now being reformulated in a discourse of intercultural as well as multicultural relations.

Academic text (2000)
Many important folk, popular, and classical works of Jewish music are written in Yiddish (a Hebraized variation of German), Ladino (essentially fifteenth-century Castilian, with a sprinkling of Arabic and Hebrew for color), and even English.

Academic text (1990)
When I gathered the courage to caress the book open, I found an inscription in Ladino to Pedro from his mother dated: Purim, the 14th of Adar, 5707 (1947).

Fiction book (1999)
My grandmother often speaks Ladino when talking about her childhood in Turkey.

Synonyms

Judeo-Spanish

vsLadino

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A form of Spanish spoken by Jews from Spain, often written in Hebrew letters

is the alternative traditional name for the same dialect

Surface Forms

Ladino singular

Ladinos plural

Etymology

Ladino comes from a Spanish word that goes back to Latin Latinus, meaning 'Latin', and it was used for the Spanish spoken by Jewish communities. That's why Ladino is the name for the Spanish-derived language used by Sephardic Jews.