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Tetuani Ladino
Dialect of Judaeo-Spanish historically spoken by Sephardic Jews in Oran, Algeria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tetuani (or Tétouani; Arabic: تطوانى; or Haketia) is a dialect of Judaeo-Spanish, or Ibero-Romance as spoken by Sephardic Jews, associated with and historically spoken by Tetuani Jews, a mainly Sephardic community with ties to the city of Tetuan in Morocco. It contained Arabic and Hebrew elements.[1]
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re-Hispanisation
Spanish as spoken by the Jewish community of Tetuan went through a process of re-Hispanisation starting in the 19th century, whereby various linguistic aspects of Haketia were influenced by Castilian Spanish.[1] According to Isaac Guershon, this process was sustained by Jewish merchants' commerce between western Mediterranean cities, especially between Tetuan and Gibraltar.[1]
According to Moisés Orfali, by the 1920s, texts published about Haketia could be considered documentation of a dying language.[1] The Asociación Hispanojudía de Tetuan sought to teach 'pure Castilian'.[1]
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