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Tetuani Ladino

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Region
  
now mostly Israel

Glottolog
  
None

Native speakers
  
a few thousand (date missing)

Language family
  
Indo-European Italic Romance Western Ibero-Romance Judaeo-Spanish Tetuani

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. 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.

References

Tetuani Ladino Wikipedia