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etracher
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Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish
Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian

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09 April 2011 at 3:52pm | IP Logged

Dragomanno wrote:

Italian Jews in Livorno used to speak a peculiar language named Bagitto or Bajitto, a kind of "creol" dialect originated from the merging of Jewish-Spanish and Jewish-Portuguese with the local Tuscan dialect.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagitto

Shalom

Excellent Dragomanno. Here is a reference to Judeo-Italian varieties in general.

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