Resumen de The Language Shift Origins of Judeo-Spanish

Mahir Saul

• This article proposes that the Judeo-Spanish language of the Sephardic Jews of the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean involved at its origin a language shift that occurred after em-igration from the Iberian Peninsula, in non-Hispanic environment; that a form of Castilian was adopted as a deliberate act and quickly in the early period of exile, in order to alter a previous situa-tion of Romance language pluralism within and among the transplanted Jewish communities.