Haketia

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Haketia is a Judeo-Spanish dialect historically spoken by Sephardic Jews in northern Morocco and parts of Gibraltar, characterized by strong influences from Moroccan Arabic and Hebrew.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish language
Judeo-Spanish dialect
endangered language
associatedWithReligion Judaism
closelyRelatedTo Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)
surface form: Ladino
declineCause language shift to French
language shift to Hebrew in Israel
language shift to Modern Spanish
differsFrom Ladino in strong Arabic influence
hasAlternativeName Hakitia
Haquetía
Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)
surface form: Judeo-Moroccan Spanish

Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)
surface form: Judeo-Spanish of North Africa
hasAncestor Old Spanish
surface form: Medieval Castilian

Old Spanish
hasCulturalRegion North Africa
surface form: Maghreb

Sephardic diaspora
hasLanguageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Hebrew
Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Moroccan Arabic

Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

Spanish
hasNotableFeature code-switching with Spanish and Arabic
distinctive humorous idioms
heavy borrowing of Arabic vocabulary
use of Hebrew religious terms in everyday speech
hasPrimaryWordOrder SVO
historicallySpokenBy Sephardi Jews
surface form: Sephardic Jews
influencedBy Berber languages
Hebrew
Modern Spanish
Maghrebi Arabic
surface form: Moroccan Arabic

Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
spokenIn Ceuta
Gibraltar
Larache
Melilla
Tangier
Tétouan
northern Morocco
status severely endangered
subclassOf Ibero-Romance language
Judeo-Romance language
Romance language
usedIn domestic life
jokes and humor
oral storytelling
proverbs
songs
usesScript Hebrew alphabet
Latin alphabet

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