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[Jewbacca]

Ladino is close to one of the prettiest languages on Earth.

It’s like an edgy French. Just wonderful to listen to.

Apparently pretty easy to learn.

[Jewbacca]

Mexico and South America have pockets.

I’ve been there and heard it.

[Eleutheria5]

There’s also a major literary work written in it, the Me’am Lo’ez midrashic anthology. It’s been translated into Hebrew and English, but the original Ladino edition is still around, probably out of print.

[Eleutheria5]

Any of the speakers you heard have the last name Nunez?

[Jewbacca]

Don’t know one way or the other.

I know one has the sur-name “Castillo” bc he married my sister-in-law and is a Colonel in the IDF. (So he’s my brother in law in law? No clue the word.)

Anyway, it was a 5 day party from which I was hung over for three days. And that was when I was in my 30s.

Nearly killed the poor Chabad rabbi who officiated.

[Eleutheria5]

Anyway, it appears that the name Nunez is to Sephardim what the name Goldstein is to Ashkenazim. Learned this from a fellow named Nunez who didn’t even know he was Jewish, descended from Marranos, until somebody explained the meaning of the name to him. He was an aristocratically Castilian Mexican, in whose house I was once a guest.

[SunkenCiv]

[rmlew]

Ladino is still spoken by Sephardic Jews. Romaniote/Judeao-Greek/Yevanic is all but extinct