Haketia

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Haketia (Hebrew: חַכִּיתִּיָה Ḥakkītīyā; Arabic: الحَكِيتِيَةُ al-Ḥakītiya; Spanish: Haquetía) (also written as Hakitia or Haquitía) is a Jewish ethnolect and Romance language also known as Djudeo Spañol, Ladino Occidental, or Western Judaeo-Spanish. It is an endangered language that was historically spoken by the North African Sephardim in the Moroccan cities of Tétouan, Tangier, Asilah, Larache, Chefchaouen, Ksar el-Kebir, Casablanca (by migrants from northern cities) and the Spanish cities of Ceuta, and Melilla. Tétouani Ladino was also spoken in Oran, Algeria. One of the distinctions between Ladino and Haketia (Haquetia) is that the latter incorporates many elements of Moroccan Arabic.

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