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Ladino
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
LADINO various forms of judeo-spanish spoken...after their expulsion from spain in 1492. Ladino is also called Spanyol or Judezmo; in Northern...Greek, Turkish, Italian, and French. Ladino was the language of Jewish merchants throughout...
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Ladinos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Ladinos ETHNONYMS: none "Ladino" is a term that was applied to the...cultural values attributed to the term "Ladino," the word came to be used to describe...Identification. Despite the connotations of "Ladino" during the colonial period, the...
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Sephardic Jews
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...The language of Sephardic Judaism was Ladino (Judeo-Spanish, Judezmo, Hakatia...Turkey, North Africa, and the Balkans. Ladino is best described as a dialect of Castilian...Turkish, and other languages. Originally, Ladino was written with Hebrew characters and...
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Awakateko
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...communities. After the 1968 election of a Ladino alcalde, the Eastern Indians took control...power away from the Indians and gave it to Ladino officials. In 1971 the Guatemalan military...because of an Indian uprising protesting Ladino intervention. Arrests and imprisonment...
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Tzotzil and Tzeltal of Pantelhó
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...workers (peons) on newly established Ladino ranches (haciendas). In their terms...Tenure") expropriated from large Ladino ranches; however, the Indians' struggle for land was long and bitter. Ladino ranchers resisted expropriation through...
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Chiapas
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...nature of relations between indigenous and ladino. Liberal reforms privatized land held...Thereby the general trend of wealthy landed ladino and poor landless indigenous continued...pitted landless indigenous against landed ladino, and often required secretive organizing...
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Poqomam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Houses are constructed either in the traditional way or in the Ladino way. In the case of traditional structures, the walls are...and the roofs are thatched with long grasses. The walls of Ladino houses are generally built of brick, and the roofs are made...
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Tzotzil of San Bartolomé de los Llanos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Bartolom é Venustiano Carranza, is half Tzotzil and half Ladino (Spanish speakers of mixed Indian, Spanish, and African ancestry...includes a large sugar-mill community at Pujiltic, and several Ladino towns. The town is built on a side ridge of an extinct volcano...
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Ladin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Romansch), but it now is treated as a language in its own right. The use of the term "Ladino" as an ethnonym for "Ladin" is somewhat confusing, since "Ladino" refers as well to the traditional language of Sephardic Jews, from which Ladin is...
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Jews
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Jewish communities they encountered. In some places they continued to speak a Judeo-Spanish language known as Judezmo or Ladino into the 20th cent. Some Sephardim also migrated to Western Europe. The other large branch of the Jewish people, known as...
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