Tetuani (or ; ; or Haketia) is a variant or dialect of Haketia, a form of Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish)—Ibero-Romance as spoken by Sephardic Jews—associated with and historically spoken by Tétouani Jews, a Sephardic community with ties to the city of Tétouan in Morocco. It contained Arabic and Hebrew elements.
re-Hispanisation
Spanish as spoken by the Jewish community of Tetuan went through a process of re-Hispanisation starting in the 19th century, whereby various linguistic aspects of Haketia were influenced by Castilian Spanish. According to Isaac Guershon, this process was sustained by Jewish merchants' commerce between western Mediterranean cities, especially between Tetuan and Gibraltar. Tetuani was used to refer to the Haketia spoken in that city.
See also
- Haketia