Citations missing date March 2010 Jews and Judaism sidebar Haketia lang he n , lang ar also written as Hakitia or Haquit a is an endangered language endangered History of the Jews in Morocco Jewish Moroccan Romance language , also known as Djudeo Spa ol or Ladino Occidental western Ladino language Ladino , that was spoken and spread throughout the North of Morocco such as in Tetuan , Tangiers and the Spanish towns of Ceuta and Melilla , in the latter of which it has achieved partial official before being absorbed by modern Spanish. A variant of Haketia was also spoken in Algeria Oran . Description File Delacroix letter.gif thumb upright 1.2 An original letter in Haketia from Tangier, written in 1832. The well known form of Ladino language Ladino , as formerly spoken by Jews living in the Balkans, Greece, Turkey and Jerusalem, is Ladino Oriental eastern Ladino . Haketia may be described by contrast as Ladino Occidental . The language is a variety of Spanish language Spanish that borrows heavily from Judeo Moroccan Arabic . It evidently also contains a number of words of Hebrew origin and was originally written using Hebrew alphabet Hebrew letters . There is some cultural resemblance between the two Judaeo Spanish dialect communities, including a rich shared stock of Romanzas ballads from medieval Spain, though both words and music often differ in detail as indeed they do between one Oriental Sephardic community and another . The name Haketia derived from the Arabic aka , tell , and is therefore pronounced with Aspiration phonetics aspirated h , reflecting the Arabic guttural a . In some places it is written Jaquet a with the same pronunciation. Haketia ... http www.legadosefardi.net ladino.htm Ladino and Haketia Dead link date March 2010 Jewish languages Category Jews and Judaism in Morocco Category Ladino language ar es Haquet a fr Haketia he lad Haketia tr Haketia ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Infobox language name Tetuani region now mostly Israel speakers a few thousand familycolor Indo European fam2 Italic languages Italic fam3 Romance languages Romance fam4 Western Romance languages Western fam5 Gallo Iberian languages Gallo Iberian fam6 Ibero Romance languages Ibero Romance fam7 Judaeo Spanish iso3 Tetuani or Tetouani , Arabic language Arabic is a dialect of Ladino language Judaeo Spanish , a Jews Jewish Romance languages Romance language spoken in the Algeria n city of Oran . ref http www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org jsource judaica ejud 0002 0015 0 15167.html Oran . The Jewish Virtual Library ref The probable origin of the name is the city of Tetouan in Morocco , from where some of the Jewish residents came from. Classification Tetuani is a dialect of the Romance languages Romance language of Ladino language Judaeo Spanish . See also Haketia References references div style clear both div Jewish languages Category Ladino language Category T touan fr Tetuani lad Tetuani ru ... more details
Amina Alaoui is a Morocco Moroccan interpreter of Andalusian classical music. She sings in arabic language Arabic , Persian language Classic Persian Classic Persian and Haketia . Amina was born in 1964 ref http worldmusiccentral.org artists artist page.php?id 1052 Amina Alaoui . World Music Central ref in an aristocratic family in Fes Fez , Morocco . At the age of six, she started to learn Andalusian classical music in her own family environment. She learned to play the piano and was initiated in European classical music by the conductor Mohamed Abou Drar . Amina also studied at the music school conservatory of Rabat from 1979 to 1981 with Ahmed Aydoun and Mohammed Ouassini and studied modern dancing with Marie Odile Loakira and classic dancing with Vera Likatchova . ref http www.saphrane.com alaoui.htm Amina Alaoui . Saphrane World Classic Jazz ref Amina went to school at Lyc e Descartes and studied philology and spanish language Spanish and arabic language Arabic linguistics at the University of Madrid dn date February 2012 and the University of Granada . Andalusian classical music While studying in Granada , Amina did personal research on Arab Andalusian and Middle Eastern music oriental music and she specialized in Andalusian classical music , specifically in the gharnati arabic for Granada style of music. She moved to Paris in 1986, where she studied gharnati music with Rachid Guerbas and Ahmed Piro . There she also studied Medieval music European Medieval music with Henri Agnel and Persian classical music with Djalal Akhbari . In 2011 she released Arco Iris Amina Alaoui album Arco Iris ECM , which bridged musical traditions of Portuguese fado , Spanish flamenco , and Persian and Arab Andalusian classical music. ref New York Times, July 3, 2011 http www.nytimes.com 2011 07 03 arts music new cds from shabazz palaces foster the people and wu lyf.html? r 1&scp 1&sq Amina 20Alaoui&st cse ref Discography Gharnati Musique arabo andalouse du Maroc 1995 Alc ntara 1998 ... more details
seealso Demographics of Gibraltar Languages of country Gibraltar image Gibraltar bilingual sign.jpg image size 200px caption One of the many bilingual signs found in Gibraltar s Rock of Gibraltar Upper Rock Nature Reserve Upper Rock Nature Reserve , printed in both English language English and Spanish language Spanish . official English language English unofficial Spanish language Spanish main British English regional indigenous vernacular Llanito minority Maghrebi Arabic , Berber language , Sindhi language Sindhi , Hindi , Maltese language Maltese , Hebrew language Hebrew immigrant foreign sign British Sign Language keyboard British QWERTY keyboard image Image KB United Kingdom.svg 200px source Culture of Gibraltar As a British overseas territory , the sole official language of Gibraltar is English language English , and it is used by the Government of Gibraltar Government and in schools. File Location Gibraltar EU.png thumb left 160px Many of Gibraltar s linguistic influences come from its neighbours, Spain and Morocco . Most Gibraltarian people locals are bilingual , also speaking Spanish language Spanish , due to Gibraltar s proximity to Spain . Most Gibraltarians converse in Llanito , their vernacular which is mostly based on Andalusian Spanish , but greatly influenced by other Mediterranean languages. However, because of the Demographics of Gibraltar varied mix of ethnic groups which reside there, other languages such as Hindi , Berber language Berber , and Arabic language Arabic are also spoken on Rock of Gibraltar The Rock . Llanito main Llanito Llanito pronounced IPA es a nito is the main local vernacular , and is unique to Gibraltar. It consists of an eclectic mix of Andalusian Spanish and British English , as well as languages such as Maltese language Maltese , Portuguese language Portuguese , Italian language Italian of the Genoese dialect Genoese variety and Haketia . Andalusian Spanish is the main constituent of Llanito, but is also heavily influenced ... more details
Infobox Language name Judeo Moroccan Arabic states Israel , Morocco , France speakers 258,925 familycolor Afro Asiatic fam2 Semitic languages Semitic fam3 Central Semitic languages Central Semitic fam4 South Central Semitic languages South Central Semitic fam5 Arabic language Arabic script Hebrew alphabet iso3 aju Judeo Moroccan Arabic is a Varieties of Arabic variety of Arabic language Arabic spoken by Jew s living or formerly living in Morocco . The vast majority of all current speakers now live in France and Israel . The few speakers remaining in Morocco are usually older adults. ref Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue Languages of the World . 15th edition. Dallas Summer Institute of Linguistics. ref History and composition Historically Widely used in the Jewish community during History of the Jews in Morocco its long history there , the Moroccan dialect of Judeo Arabic has many influences from languages other than Arabic , including Spanish language Spanish due to the close proximity of Spain , Haketia or Moroccan Judeo Spanish, due to the influx of Sephardic refugees from Spain after the 1492 expulsion, and French language French due to the period in which Morocco was colonized by France , and, of course, the inclusion of many Hebrew loanwords and phrases a feature of all Jewish languages . The dialect has considerable mutual intelligibility with Judeo Tunisian Arabic , and some with Judeo Tripolitanian Arabic , but almost none with Judeo Iraqi Arabic . Today The vast majority of Morocco s 265,000 Jews emigrated to Israel after 1948, with significant emigration to Europe mainly France and North America as well. Although more than 8,000 Jews remain in Morocco today, most of the younger generations speak French as their first language, Citation needed date September 2008 rather than Arabic, and their Arabic is more akin to Moroccan Arabic than to Judeo Arabic. There are estimated to be 8,925 speakers in Morocco, mostly Casablanca and Fes , and 250,000 in ... more details
and History of the Jews in Algeria Algeria and spoke a variant of Judaeo Spanish known as Haketia ... Spanish and French gradually replaced Haketia and Judeo Arabic as mother tongue among most Moroccan ... also known as Haketia Unicode akit a , once spoken, with little regional distinction, in six towns ... more details
Espa ola DRAE . ref Sefardi , Djudio , Dzhudezmo , Judezmo , and Spanyol or Espa ol sefardita Haketia ... Espa ol, script Hebr . Haketia Jewish languages Judaism Judeo ... more details
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