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Tetuani Ladino

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Tetuani
Regionnow mostly Israel
Native speakers
a few thousand[citation needed]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone

Tetuani (or Tetouani; Arabic: تطوانى) is a dialect of Judaeo-Spanish, a Jewish Romance language historically spoken by the North African Sephardim in the Algerian city of Oran.[1] The probable origin of the name is the city of Tetouan in Morocco, whence some of the Jewish residents came.

Classification

Tetuani is a dialect of Judaeo-Spanish.

See also

References

  1. ^ Oran. The Jewish Virtual Library