Haketia

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Haketia
Hakitia, Haquitía, Western Judeo-Spanish
An original letter in Solitreo script from Tangier, written in 1832.
Pronunciation	[ħakeˈti.a]
Native to	Morocco
Region	The Maghreb, Israel, Amazonas state in Brazil[1]
Ethnicity	North African Sephardic Jews
Native speakers	1000 (2023)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Iberian Ibero-Romance West Iberian Castilian Judeo-Spanish Haketia
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Old Spanish
Dialects	Tetuani Ladino
Writing system	Originally, Hebrew (typically either Rashi or Solitreo; now, mostly Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	lad-015
Historical Judeo-Spanish speech communities in the Mediterranean. Ringed circles represent modern speech communities. Haketia is spoken on the southwest Mediterranean.

Haketia (Hebrew: חַכִּיתִּיָה Ḥakkītīyā; Arabic: الحَكِيتِيَةُ al-Ḥakītiya; Spanish: Haquetía) (also written as Hakitia or Haquitía) is an endangered Jewish Romance language also known as Djudeo Spañol, Ladino Occidental, or Western Judaeo-Spanish. It was historically spoken by the North African Sephardim^[2] in the Moroccan cities of Tétouan, Tangier, Asilah, Larache, Chefchaouen, Ksar el-Kebir, and the Spanish towns of Ceuta and Melilla. Tetuani Ladino was also spoken in Oran, Algeria. One of the distinctions between Ladino and Haketia (Haquetia) is that the latter incorporates Moroccan Arabic.