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Dialect comparison

Cuban-American Spanish vs Ladino

Compare two dialects of Spanish side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.

Cuban-American Spanish

Miami Spanish

The Spanish of the Cuban-American community of Florida, especially Miami. A Caribbean Spanish variety with substantial English contact features and a distinctive bilingual code-switching register.

Spoken in
Approximate centre
25.76°, -80.19°
Ladino

Judeo-Spanish · Judezmo · Djudeo-Espanyol

The Sephardic Jewish Romance language descended from the Spanish varieties carried out of Iberia after the expulsions of the late fifteenth century. Historically spoken across the Ottoman Empire and North Africa, today it survives mainly as an endangered heritage language in Turkey, Israel, the Balkans, and diaspora communities.

Approximate centre
41.01°, 28.97°

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