Hi Terry,

You wrote:

I have a phrase >from a gravestone that I need translated. I thought it
might be French or Italian but I have been told it probably is not. The
phrase is "La Chikitika Mia, La Savorozika Mia". Could someone please
tell me the language and translate it for me.

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These words are in Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish) that was mainly spoken by
Sephardic Jews living in the Ottoman Empire. The language is based on
medieval Spanish (time of the Expulsion in 1492) and has additions >from
Hebrew and local languages like Turkish, Greek and Bulgarian).
The words on the inscription mean: "My little one, my delicious one".

Shalom,

Mathilde Tagger
Sephardim SIG Coordinator
Israel Genealogical Society
www.isragen.org.il