Haketia

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

Haketia
Hakitia, Haquitía, Western Judeo-Spanish
An original letter in Solitreo script from Tangier, written in 1832.
Native toNorth Africa
RegionIsrael, Amazonas state in Brazil
EthnicityNorth African Sephardic Jews
Native speakers
1000 (2023)
Indo-European
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
  • Proto-Italic
    • Old Latin
      • Vulgar Latin
        • Proto-Romance
          • Old Spanish
Dialects
  • Tetuani Ladino
Writing system
Hebrew, Solitreo
Language codes
ISO 639-3
IETFlad-015
Historical Judeo-Spanish speech communities in the Mediterranean. Ringed circles represent modern speech communities. Haketia is spoken on the southwest Mediterranean.
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