Judaeo-Spanish

alternative obsolete Judæo-Spanish · alternative Judeo-Spanish

1. A Romance language, based on Old Spanish, and spoken almost exclusively by Sephardic Jews in Greece and Turkey.

   Although like most American-born children of immigrants they had failed to develop a fluent use of the mother tongue, both had heard Judaeo-Spanish all their lives and had entirely native habits of pronouncing it.

   1950, Agard, Frederick B., "Present-Day Judaeo-Spanish in the United States," in Hispania, Vol. 33, American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, page 204

   Synonyms: Djudezmo, Djudeo-Espanyol, Djudeo-Kasteyano, Ladino