Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nearly extinct Romance language, descended from medieval Spanish, spoken by Sephardic Jews especially in the Balkans, Turkey, and the Near East.
- noun In Central America, a Spanish-speaking or acculturated Indian; a mestizo.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ancient Spanish or Castilian language.
- noun A Spanish and Portuguese jargon spoken by certain Jews in Turkey and elsewhere.
- noun In Central America, a half-breed of white and Indian parentage; a mestizo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge.
- noun The mixed Spanish and Hebrew language spoken by Sephardim.
- noun Southeastern U. S. A cunningly vicious horse.
- noun A ladin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
Romance language , derived mainly from Old Castilian (Spanish ) andHebrew . - noun a person in
Latin America who speaks Spanish and is "Westernized", and whose culture is a mixture of European Spanish and Native American decent, amestizo .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
- noun the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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TL: Yes, it was sung in Ladino, which is the Yiddish intersection of Hebrew and Spanish.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive: Erasure's "A Little Respect," Plus A Holiday Conversation With Mr. Pink Martini Mike Ragogna 2010
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TL: Yes, it was sung in Ladino, which is the Yiddish intersection of Hebrew and Spanish.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive : Erasure's "A Little Respect," Plus a Holiday Conversation With Mr. Pink Martini Mike Ragogna 2010
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TL: Yes, it was sung in Ladino, which is the Yiddish intersection of Hebrew and Spanish.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive : Erasure's "A Little Respect," Plus a Holiday Conversation With Mr. Pink Martini Mike Ragogna 2010
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TL: Yes, it was sung in Ladino, which is the Yiddish intersection of Hebrew and Spanish.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive : Erasure's "A Little Respect," Plus a Holiday Conversation With Mr. Pink Martini Mike Ragogna 2010
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TL: Yes, it was sung in Ladino, which is the Yiddish intersection of Hebrew and Spanish.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive : Erasure's "A Little Respect," Plus a Holiday Conversation With Mr. Pink Martini Mike Ragogna 2010
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TL: Yes, it was sung in Ladino, which is the Yiddish intersection of Hebrew and Spanish.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive: Erasure's "A Little Respect," Plus A Holiday Conversation With Mr. Pink Martini Mike Ragogna 2010
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TL: Yes, it was sung in Ladino, which is the Yiddish intersection of Hebrew and Spanish.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Video Exclusive : Erasure's "A Little Respect," Plus a Holiday Conversation With Mr. Pink Martini Mike Ragogna 2010
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Ethnic groups: Mestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) and European 59.4%, K'iche 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%, Mam 7.9%, Q'eqchi 6.3%, other Mayan 8.6%, indigenous non-Mayan 0.2%, other 0.1% (2001 census)
Guatemala 2008
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GuatemalaMestizo (mixed Amerindian-Spanish - in local Spanish called Ladino) and European 59.4%, K'iche 9.1%, Kaqchikel 8.4%, Mam 7.9%, Q'eqchi 6.3%, other Mayan 8.6%, indigenous non-Mayan 0.2%, other 0.1% (2001 census)
Ethnic groups 2008
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My hands-down favorite performer was the Israeli singer Mor Karbasi, who is something of a world musical festival in her own right, having a Persian father, Moroccan mother, being born in Jerusalem, based in London, and singing a lot of her songs in Ladino, which is a kind medieval Spanish/Portuguese creole spoken by Sephardic exiles.
Archive 2008-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008
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