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חכיתיה

Haketia
  • Global speakers: 133,016
  • Glottocode: haqu1237
  • ISO 639-3: lad
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Within New York's Moroccan Jewish community — including synagogues in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn but relatively small compared to other Jewish communities and to the Moroccan Jewish communities in Israel, France, Spain, and Latin America — there are a few who remember the Judeo-Spanish spoken up until the 1950s in cities of northern Morocco like Tetuan and Tangier. Of the same origin as the better-known Judeo-Spanish (or Ladino) of the Ottoman Empire, Haketia took on more elements of Moroccan (Judeo-)Arabic, among other things. Alicia Raz, taken from Morocco to Israel when she was one day old, grew up speaking a "Hispanicized" Haketia and has worked to bring Haketia speakers in New York (and beyond) together with her Voces de Haketia project.
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