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Sephardic or Djudezmo is a dialect of Old Spanish with many loanwords from Hebrew, it is spoken by the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492.
The Sephardim suffered important losses due to the Nazi Holocaust, particularly those living in th Balcans, and most of those who migrated to Israel have not transmitted the language to their children.
Sephardic has a literature of its own, mostly published in the Turkish variant of the Latin alphabet.
This language is perfectly intelligible for speakers of Spanish, although it sounds archaic to them.
A language often mistaken with Sephardic is Ladino, which was created by Spanish Rabbis during the Middle Ages to make Jewish Law easier to understand to their congregations. While Ladino vocabulary is Spanish, the meanings given to the words, most of which can be considered calques, and the syntax used are clearly Hebrew.
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