text: For centuries , the Sephardic Jewish neighborhoods of cities from Tangier , Fez , and Amsterdam to Salonika , Istanbul , and Aleppo echoed with Ladino , a 15th-century Castilian dialect ( sprinkled with Hebrew words ) spoken by the Spanish exiles wherever they settled .
  
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  No cities have any residents who speak the Ladino dialect , because it is largely a dead dialect .