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Ladino
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Ladino (also known as Judeo-Spanish or Judezmo) is a Romance language traditionally spoken by the descendants of the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. The language developed in the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, and the Balkans, absorbing significant lexical contributions from local languages, including Ottoman Turkish, Greek, and …
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Substratum Language
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A substratum language refers to a language spoken by the original inhabitants of a geographical area that is subsequently conquered or settled by speakers of a different, dominant language (the superstratum). The linguistic influence exerted by this earlier, non-dominant language on the succeeding language is termed substratum effect. This concept is central to historical linguistics and dialectology, particularly in modeling language replacement scenarios and the fo…
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West Indies
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Cultural and Linguistic Mosaic
The linguistic landscape of the West Indies is highly fragmented, a result of overlapping colonial histories involving Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Denmark. While English, Spanish, French, and Dutch remain official lan…