JudaeoSpanish
JudaeoSpanish, also known as Ladino or Judezmo, is a Romance language that developed from Old Spanish spoken by Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. These communities settled in various parts of the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, and later in Western Europe and the Americas. The language retained many archaic features of Castilian Spanish while also incorporating vocabulary and linguistic influences from the languages of their new homelands, such as Turkish, Greek, Arabic, and French.
Ladino was primarily a spoken language, used in homes, marketplaces, and religious contexts. It also developed
Due to historical events such as the Holocaust and assimilation, the number of native Ladino speakers has