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Spain helps keep alive archaic language of Sephardic Jews
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Published: 24.02.18, 18:02
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1. I SPEAK LADINO
LADINO LOVER ,   SAFED HONESTY   (02.24.18)
Some common Ladino phrases: Kleine kinder lozn nit shloffen ,grosse kinder lozn nit leben .A mensch tracht un Got lacht . Keyner zet nit zayn eygenem hoyker. Tu on a hazir a Shtreimel , vet er vern rav ? az Got hot geteylt dem seykhl bistu gesholfen. Es felt mir vi a lokh in kop .Drey mir nit keyn kop.
2. Thank-you Spain
Tova   (02.26.18)
Sepharidic Jews speak Landino.
Ashkenazi Jews speak Yiddish.

Neither language is spoken by the younger generation. Both these languages were spoken generation ago when Jews where living in different parts of the world.

Ashenazi or Shephardic both origians are from the middle east, Israel.
One is not better than the other.

3. Tova and what do Maghreb & Mizrachi Jews speak?
Sameach Tet Sefardi ,   Israel   (02.28.18)
Answer: Maghreb & Mizrachi Jews speak Arabic and/or Persian if they are from Iran.

Other facts:
1. Jews landed in all kinds of places and speak all kinds of languages.
2. Yiddish is still a spoken and written language to hear it all you need to do is go over to Mea Sharim or any other ultra-orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem. Further throughout the USA at many major universities there are entire departments dedicated to the preservation of the Yiddish language.
3. I am a member of the younger generation and I speak Ladino.
4. Spain is preserving this language because it forms part of Spain's national culture and not because they care too much about us Jews. After all they did expel us you know.
5. Finally Sameach Tet Sefardi Jews beat out all other Jewish ethnic minorities.
4. Marxists love the death
Murx   (02.28.18)
The lefties want one world,one culture,one language.
5. Jews spoke many languages through History...
Ex oleh chadash   (03.01.18)
I heard people speaking Ladino years ago, when I was a teen. The same happens to Yiddish; both languages are dying.

Ladino is (was) a very beautiful sweet language.

I like the Sefaradim, they are nice people.
6. ex-Holeh Chadash
Katanga ,   Israel   (03.02.18)
If what happened in 1492 wasn't the expulsion of the Jews of Spain then what was it?
Please do be aware that the expulsion order was lifted by King Juan Carlos in 1992. Last I checked 1992 wasn't part of the middle ages.

Currently for the age groups 18 to 30 Spain has an unemployment rate of 25%
Neither young Jews nor young Israelis are immigrating (not emmigrating - look the words up in a dictionary to learn the difference) to Spain in large numbers.

Regarding Yiddish...perhaps you should take that up with the Ashkenazi Ultra-Orthodox and NOT with Sameach Tet Sefardi...because really what does a Sefardi have to do with Ashkenazim?

Actually language numbers for Jews indicate that the highest number of them speak Russian, followed Spanish (there is a huge Jewish diaspora in Latin America) and only then English (but then most USA Jews aren't really Jewish anymore)
Italian Jewry prides itself on keeping itself separate ... they are happy that way have been since Temple Times under the Roman Empire.
and yes there was a Jewish Arabic dialect....but that was in the Middle Ages. You know the Middle Ages when the Sefardi Jews were expelled from Spain! :P
Q.E.D.
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