Judaeo-Spanish

English

Alternative forms

• Judæo-Spanish, Judeo-Spanish

Etymology

Judaeo- +‎ Spanish

Proper noun

Judaeo-Spanish

1. A Romance language, based on Old Spanish, and spoken almost exclusively by Sephardic Jews in Greece and Turkey.
   • 1950, Agard, Frederick B., "Present-Day Judaeo-Spanish in the United States," in Hispania, Vol. 33, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, page 204:

     Although like most American-born children of immigrants they had failed to develop a fluent use of the mother tongue, both had heard Judaeo-Spanish all their lives and had entirely native habits of pronouncing it.

Synonyms

• Djudezmo
• Djudeo-Espanyol
• Djudeo-Kasteyano
• Ladino