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ladino

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1. ladino - Noun

2. Ladino - Proper noun

Meaning

One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Performing as Los Serenos Sefarad (The Sephardic Watchmen), the duo intersperses the rabbi’s heartfelt tenor vocals with Hernandez’s smooth, rhythmic renditions of Ladino raps written by Benzaquen. Source: Internet

Ladino speakers today are almost exclusively Sephardi Jews, with family roots in Turkey, Greece, or the Balkans, and living mostly in Israel, Turkey, and the United States, with a few communities in Hispanic America. Source: Internet

This translation, which agreed almost entirely with the one that appeared at Ferrara in Latin letters in 1553, was followed by another, in four parts (Constantinople, 1739-45), in Ladino ('entero bien Ladinado'); seventy years later Israelb. Source: Internet

By the following June the city of San Cristóbal was surrounded by several thousand Indians, who offered the exchanged of several Ladino captives for their religious leaders and stones. Source: Internet

These communities had had almost no contact with the Ladino world, except for a priest. Source: Internet

What they held in common was indigenous identity vis-à-vis the non-indigenous, using the old 19th century "caste war" word "Ladino" for them. Source: Internet

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