The Ladin, the ancient language of the Spanish Jews before they were expelled from the peninsula, is already present in the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE). Since last Thursday, this institution has eight specialists in Judeo-Spanish language.
“We are not responsible for what became the Academy in its three centuries of history, but its future, and it seemed necessary for such an important phenomenon as the Judeo-Spanish language had representation at our institution, “said Dario Villanueva, director of the SAR, who says that these appointments are not made lightly. “We have been more than three years gathering information on Sephardic centers worldwide on the leading specialists in this language.”
The Ladino is the Spanish spoken in the peninsula in the fifteenth century, that has been preserved (with some variations) by the Jews who had to leave Spain (Sephardic) after their expulsion by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492.
“The Spanish of these communities has evolved in a more slower than the Spanish peninsula, already in the sixteenth century underwent a major transformation, especially in the sounds, “says Villanueva.
This Renaissance Spanish Jews, given the disconnection with the mainland and nostalgia for the land has been preserved quite faithful to the present, with only the addition of voices of the new places where they were to live, especially Arabic and Turkish.
The communities where there as many Sephardim, and talk (in the family) Ladino, are Israel, Turkey and North Africa as well as parts of Latin America. In 1990, the Sephardic communities received the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord
The figure of “relevant academic” is old. Dating from the nineteenth century. All members of the 22 schools of the Latin language are, for example, and may attend meetings of the SAR (with no voting rights) when matters in which they are experts discussed. Your job is to counsel.
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