You’ve heard of Yiddish, but what about Ladino? Many people are familiar with Yiddish, a German-Hebrew language (a blend, if you will) developed and spoken by Ashkenazi Jews from Europe. Ladino or Judeo-Spanish, a Sephardic Jewish language, is a parallel to Yiddish, though much less known.1 The language goes by other names, such as Judesmo/Djudezmo or Judío/Djudyo (which mean ‘Jewish’), Sefardí, and Haquetía, but ‘Judeo-Spanish’ is official and ‘Ladino’ is most popular. Ladino is a...