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Forging a Future for Languages Featured Story Since this summer an ELA team has been working closely and consistently with a young Afghani refugee from the remote Nuristan region Featured Language JudeoSpanish widely known as Ladino based on Old Spanish but later accruing influences from Greek Turkish Arabic French and other languages was the principal language of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 who settled principally in the Ottoman Empire and part of northern Morocco and then spread around the globe. ELA at a Glance 10 Projects With ten current largerscale projects and additional work on individual languages ELA focuses on communities and individuals in the New York City area. 42 Languages ELA has worked to different degrees on numerous projects with speakers of over a hundred languages spoken in New York City and beyond. More indepth work continues on the several dozen featured here.