judaeo-spanish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Romance language, based on Old Spanish, and spoken almost exclusively by Sephardic Jews in Greece and Turkey.
Example Sentences
- "Although like most American-born children of immigrants they had failed to develop a fluent use of the mother tongue, both had heard Judaeo-Spanish all their lives and had entirely native habits of pronouncing it."
Etymology
From Judaeo- + Spanish.