Tetuani
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| Tetauni | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | formerly Oran, Algeria, now mostly Israel | |
| Total speakers: | a few thousand | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Italic Romance Italo-Western Western Gallo-Iberian Ibero-Romance Judaeo-Spanish Tetauni | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | lad | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | lad — Ladino | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Tetauni (Tetuani) is a dialect of Judaeo-Spanish, a Romance language that was spoken in the city of Oran in Algeria. The name Tetauni is derived from the city of Tetouan in Morocco, whence some of the Jewish residents of Oran came.
[edit] Classification
Tetauni is a dialect of the Romance language of Judaeo-Spanish. According to the Ethnologue, the classification of Judaeo-Spanish belongs to the Ibero-Romance branch of the Gallo-Iberian branch of the Western branch of the Italo-Western branch of the Romance branch of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.
