Language - Mother Tongue

Afghanistan

Herat

Of Dari language

Caucasus

Derbent

Secret language

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Childhood songs and secret language

Egypt

Cairo

The spoken languages in Egypt

Greece

Ioannina

The Jewish language spoken by the Jews of Ioannina

Thessaloniki

The Judeo-Spanish

Iran

Hamadan

The city of Hamadan: daily life and spoken languages

Kermanshah

Numbers, days of the week and names in Aramaic

The Aramaic language

Tehran

The city of Hamadan: daily life and spoken languages

Iraq

Kurdistan

Barzan

Of Zakho dialect and Barzan dialect

Batas

Language, school, Passover traditions and Islam conversion

Bukan

About the Aramaic language

Erbil

Difficulty in speaking Aramaic

Kashrut, language, community and relationship with non Jews

Zakho

Of Zakho dialect and Barzan dialect

Writing of Kurdish-Jews language and culture

Morocco

Casablanca

Differences between the Jewish communities in Morocco

Marrakesh

Differences between the Jewish communities in Morocco

Names of women's jewelry

Oumnass

Differences between the Jewish communities in Morocco

Qsar Ssouq

Moroccan and Hebrew

Telouet

The Moroccan language and the origin of the name Solika

Syria

Damascus

Names of days, months and holidays

Tunisia

Djerba

The Jewish community in Djerba

Djerba (the large quarter)

Education and school atmosphere

Turkey

Aydın

Ladino teaching

Buenos Aires

Ladino teaching

Istanbul

Family, community and language

Yemen

Ḥumar

The different Yemenite dialects

Israel

Dialect differences between ʿAden and Sharʿab

The different Yemenite dialects

Sanaʽa

Story of different dialects

ʿAden

Dialect differences between ʿAden and Sharʿab

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