1- What is the future of the Haketía language and culture? What are the main challenges?

Despite the fact that during the second half of the 20th century it seemed that Haketía was doomed to disappear due to a drastic decline in speakers, when only the elderly people were left, dying and taking their knowledge of this language with them, at this point in the 21st century it seems that we can be more hopeful. The efforts by descendants of Haketía speakers for the recovery and conservation of this language have been unsuccessful in some cases. Just as José Benoliel, already in the twenties of the 20th century, said that he had made his Dictionary only using his memory, many of the efforts made in recent decades are the result of personal efforts to make Haketía survive. However, these efforts have found an echo in some institutions that have understood the importance of the conservation and dissemination of this language, not only because of the knowledge of the language itself, but also because of the repercussion that this has on the conservation of heritage. Sephardic culture would otherwise lose part of its legacy forever. The main challenge today is to increase the number of speakers in order for the language to last over time. If it is recovered as a mother tongue, even if it is only at the family level as it always was, the language will be alive. First of all, we understand that it is essential to find a writing consensus to be able to unify the texts that have been published in recent times, but that in the absence of such consensus they are individual efforts that do not give stability to the language, in addition to hindering its learning. The orthographic standardization would be the first objective that those who today are contributing great efforts for the conservation of Haketía should have. Social networks and the different websites that we can find on the internet are good allies for the conservation of this language. There are several institutions that have launched activities focused on this, from which people anywhere in the world can benefit as long as they have access to the internet. For example, eSefarad, Sephardic world news site. Also, the Center for Sephardic Studies and its website, sefardiweb, where numerous conservation and dissemination works are carried out on this language.