The history of Judeo-Spanish is addressed in this article, from its peninsular roots to the levelling experienced by the linguistic diversity of the exiled Jews. The question of last minute converts and generations of new Christians is also taken into account, since they are the ones who in inquisitorial statements, as accusers or defendants, provide data on their cultural and idiomatic reality, as well as illustrative of the life in the Jewish quarters, and because of them for a long time there were exiles provoked by the tenacious pressure of the Inquisition. It includes the study of a Hebrew community of Aragon, due to the weight that those of rural origin had in the diaspora and as an example of what were the big and small Jewish quarters in 1492. Finally, the Sephardic speech is related to the real linguistic board of Spain at the end of the 15th century, documentary vision that justi¿es its formation and allows to af¿rm that, indeed, a Judeo-Spanish existed, at least in fundamental aspects, before the Edict of expulsion was signed.
Keywords:
Jews and converts, language and culture, a rural Jewish quater rural in the expulsion, the linguistic bases of the 15 th century, peninsular Judeo Spanish and the diaspora
Frago, J. A. (2019). Jews, converts and judeo-spanish. Historical note. Boletín De Filología, 54(1), pp. 153–202. Retrieved from https://pedagogiaderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/53534
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