Judeo-Spanish, Djudio, Djudezmo, or Ladino is a language spoken by the Sephardi Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. It is a language derived from Spanish and spoken by 150,000 people in communities in Israel, Turkey, the former Yugoslavia, Greece, Morocco, Majorca, the Americas, among many others.
Can Blacks Play Klezmer?
Authenticity in American Ethnic Musical Expression
David Borgo
Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin vol. XXIV no.2
(Summer 1998)