User:Universal Life/Judaeo-Spanish Research

Judaeo-Spanish Research is a page collecting all information about the language with sources cited.

Classification
According to Ethnologue
 * Indo-European
 * Italic
 * Romance
 * Italo-Western
 * Western
 * Gallo-Iberian
 * Ibero-Romance
 * West Iberian
 * Castilian

Dialects
The Balkan dialect is more influenced by Turkish and Greek. The North African dialect is more influenced by Arabic and French.
 * 1) Haquetiya (Haketia, Haketiya, Hakitia)
 * 2) Judezmo (Jidyo, Judyo)
 * 3) Ladino

Language Development

 * New Media
 * Newspapers
 * Radio programs
 * Bible (1829)

Interviews

 * 79 Interviews at OLAC

Research

 * 4 Investigations at OLAC

Books

 * 9 Books at OLAC

Language Stats

 * ISO 639-3: lad
 * Language Status: 4: Educational (Israel), 7: Shifting (Turkey)
 * Language Use: Not the dominant language for most. Formerly the main language of Sephardic Jewry. All also use Hebrew (in Israel) and Turkish (in Turkey). Most speakers are over 50 years old (2007, Turkey)

Names

 * Ladino (by laymen - especially in Israel)
 * Dzhudezmo (used by linguists and Turkish Jews) also Judezmo
 * Jidyo, Judyo
 * Haquetiya
 * Haketia, Haketiya, Hakitia (by Moroccan Jews)
 * Judeo Spanish
 * Judeo-Spanish (by Romance philologists)
 * Sefardi
 * Spanyol

Orthography

 * Cyrillic script used in the Balkans
 * Hebrew script
 * Latin script used in Turkey

Population

 * Total: 112,130 (1985)
 * Israel: 100,000 (1985)
 * Turkey: 10,000 (Salminen 2007)

Spoken in

 * Israel
 * Turkey (mainly Istanbul, some in Izmir)
 * Greece
 * Puerto Rico
 * United States

Used by

 * Sephardic Jews
 * Donmes (in Turkey)