Hello Listers, my question about "Spanish latin" was of course a joke (thanks to Giliane who understood it). Thank you Sharon for the info about the language of Sephardic Jews of Spanish origin. Didn't know that. Sephardic Jews are very few in Alsace and Germany. Alsatian Jews are mainly Ashkenaze (spelling?) Jews. There settling in the Rhine valley is quite old (early Middle Ages). They used to speak a regional form of Yiddish. Interestingly there are several Jew words in Alsatian dialect. Website of the "Cercle de Genealogie Juive": <http://www.genealoj.org/> As to Huguenots, many of them crossed Alsace to immigrate to German states and Switzerland after the revocation of the Nantes Edict (1685). Many of them settled down in Alsace, despite that Alsace was French at that time - but there was no real persecution of Protestants in Alsace as in "old France". Remember the "Simultaneum" story on Valorie's blog: <http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/simultaneum-in-churches-of-alsace.htm l>. Etienne > I would love to see how Spanish that doesn't derive from Latin looks like :) > > - Giliane > -----Original Message----- > > In a message dated 1/23/2008 3:32:30 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > Etienne.Herrbach@wanadoo.fr writes: > "spanish latin" mean? > > Spanish + Latin or derived from Latin...latein in German > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:27:02 -0500 > From: Sharon Centanne <centans@tampabay.rr.com> > > speak a Latinized Spanish called Ladino. These were Jews > of Spanish origin in 1492 when they > were kicked out of Spain by the powers that be for not becoming > Catholic. Many went to Sicily and Turkey. I don't > know if any went to Alsace or Lorraine, given all the problems the > French gave the Hugonots. Maybe they went to > Germany, lots of Jews there until WWII. > > Sharon