[UA] Golem Family Reunion

[Michael Dinowitz]

At 10:49 AM 4/16/02, you wrote:
>At 10:28 AM 16/04/02 -0400, Michael Dinowitz wrote:
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>>I missed the original thread so I'm starting here. Please note that I'm referring to Golems from Jewish tradition more so than the 'game' Golems. Please keep that in mind.
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>Thanks for that.  I'm admittedly a little fuzzy in some places.
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>>You mean Ladino.
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>Aha, that would be the one, although I have heard it referred to as Judezmo.
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>>It's Hebrew written with spanish letters and there are many speakers of it in this generation. Not dead.
Sorry, got it a little wrong:
"Ladino uses the Hebrew alphabet. Since the 20th century the Latin alphabet is also used for non-religious writings. The orthographical conventions differ, however, from those of modern Spanish. In phonology, Ladino is rather conservative, preserving the 15th century Spanish pronunciation with some kind of a Portuguese bias. Its grammar also has archaic features -- some Old Spanish verbal endings were preserved and the usted / ustedes forms were never adopted. Vocabulary is rich in Hebraisms, concerning the religious practices and private life aspects, and Arabisms. A lot of Oriental words (mainly Turkish) were adopted after the Sephardim established in the Ottoman empire. Later on the vocabulary underwent an intensive French influence. "

http://www.orbilat.com/Modern_Romance/Ibero-Romance/Spanish-Ladino/


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