Beraha

Istanbul Jews fight to save their ancestral tongue

Published by Hurriyet on Fri, 01/03/2020 - 10:46

If there's one thing Dora Beraha regrets in her twilight years, it is not passing on the 500-year-old language of Istanbul's Jews, Ladino, now on the point of extinction.
"After us, will there still be people who speak this language?" says 90-year-old Beraha.
"Surely, very few. It is possible that it will disappear."