Ladino
A person in Latin America whose culture or ancestry is a mixture of European Spanish…A person in Latin America whose culture or ancestry is a mixture of European Spanish and Native American, especially one who speaks Spanish; a mestizo.
» Lots of religious songs in Ladino are translations from Hebrew.
Meaning
1 sensesA person in Latin America whose culture or ancestry is a mixture of European Spanish and Native American, especially one who speaks Spanish; a mestizo.
- the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script
Examples
20 sentencesLots of religious songs in Ladino are translations from Hebrew.
Italian had a significant influence on Ladino.
Some Jews spoke Yiddish, others spoke Ladino.
deEinige Juden sprachen Jiddisch, andere Ladino. — Adelpa
Courses in Ladino from the 8th of November.
My dream is to study Ladino in Istanbul.
Origin
Borrowed from Spanish ladino (“Latinized”).Borrowed from Spanish ladino (“Latinized”).
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