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Castilian Spanish, Hebrew Loanwords in

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Author(s): Ortega-Monasterio, Mª Teresa
The Jews living in the Iberian peninsula before the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 adopted the languages that were used in their territories and, in particular, that used by the dominant class, for administrative purposes. Nevertheless, Jews continued to use Hebrew for various kind of religious and secular literature, as is attested by the numerous works preconserved in Hebrew manuscripts written in Iberia during the Middle Ages. Due to these particular circumstances, Hebrew loanwords …