Ladino, the Judeo-Spanish tongue carried across the Mediterranean by Sephardic exiles, often tucks surprising layers into a single word. Take "alegre": on the…
Judeo-Spanish, or Ladino, carries the history of Sephardic Jewish communities across the Mediterranean and beyond. Its vocabulary reflects centuries of…
Judeo-Spanish, known to its speakers as Ladino, travelled the Mediterranean with Sephardic Jews after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. For centuries it…
Judeo-Spanish, commonly called Ladino, uses a familiar pattern to describe an action happening now: a present-tense form of estar followed by a gerund. A…
Words can carry several kinds of history at once. The Ladino word mizmor refers to a psalm, linking Judeo-Spanish vocabulary with the Hebrew Bible, Jewish…
In Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, poko is a small word with a useful range of meanings. Depending on the noun and the situation, it can describe a small amount, as…
Words for a harbour often carry the history of movement across the Mediterranean. Greek, Turkish, Italian, Hebrew and Judeo-Spanish speakers met in port…
Ladino carries several layers of memory in a single word. Its foundations are largely medieval Spanish, yet centuries of Jewish life around the Mediterranean…
Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish, often gives a small word a remarkably broad workload. The spelling ke appears where a speaker of modern Spanish might expect que, and…