Hi Ilooy,
I have a few questions.
First of all: is Ladino your native language? If not, what is the purpose of this request? Second of all: What orthography do you plan on using? First of all there is the division of scripts: Latin vs Hebrew. Hebrew seems to have more adherents in Israel from what I can tell, but it seems that worldwide people prefer the Latin alphabet (although this wasn't true a century ago). Then, if you decided to use Latin, there is yet another problem... there are different ways to write Djudeo-Espanyol in Latin. I personally think Hebrew would be better, but then I am not a member of the Ladino-speaking community. Third of all: If you use Hebrew, would you mark vowels? Would you write as Ladino is traditionally written in Hebrew letters, or would you write it as if it were Hebrew language (you can see this done by some people on some websites, all in Israel)? Some people have said that Hebrew script without vowels is not well-suited to writing the Ladino language. However, as with other Indo-European languages written in abjads (ie, consonant-only alphabets), such as Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, Sindhi, and even Mozarabic (now extinct), it seems to be easily readable to native speakers, if not to learners. However unlike many languages using abjads, Ladino vowels are actually written... there's just no real distinction made between "o"/"u" and "i"/"e", and also between "p"/"f". So a word such as "Ladino" could also be read as "Ladenu", "Ladeno", or "Ladinu", and a word such as "festivales" could be read as "pistibalis" as well. However, as none of those are real words in Djudeo-espanyol, it's not a problem in most cases.
Mark
On 05/07/05, ilooy ilooy.gaon@gmail.com wrote:
Hey all! I'd like to formally request a Ladino Wiki lad.wikipedia.org and lad.wiktionary.org for the Ladino/Judeo-Spanish with ISO 639 code of 'lad'. The Ladino Komunita is quite alive and going through a renewal of sorts. There are live broadcasts in Ladino in Spanish and Israeli radio/tv and quite few periodicals are written in it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladino_language
With regards, Jay B. en:User:ILVI
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