Ladino (Of Lions and Falcons)

Ladino or Judeo-Spanish is a Romance language derived from Old Castilian. The core vocabulary of Judaeo-Spanish is Castilian and it has numerous elements from contact with other languages such as other old Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, such as Old Aragonese, Astur-Leonese, Old Catalan, Old Portuguese and Mozarabic. Several variants exists in Spain such as Judaeo-Portuguese, Navarre, Aragon and in Catalan.

Historically, the Rashi script and its cursive form Solitreo have been the main orthographies for writing Judaeo-Spanish. However today, it is mainly written with the Latin alphabet.