Editing Sephardic Jews (section)

== Etymology ==
The name Sephardi means "Iberian" or "Hispanic", derived from [[Sepharad]] ({{Hebrew Name|סְפָרַד|Sfarád|Səp̄āráḏ||nobold}}), a Biblical location.<ref name="1-20">[[Obadiah]], [http://bible.cc/obadiah/1-20.htm 1–20] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819220754/http://bible.cc/obadiah/1-20.htm |date=19 August 2011 }}: ''And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the [[Canaan]]ites, even unto [[Sarepta|Zarephath]]; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south''. ([[KJV|King James Version]])</ref> The location of the Biblical ''Sepharad'' points to the Iberian peninsula, then the westernmost outpost of [[Phoenicia]]n maritime trade.<ref>Strabo, ''[[Geographica|Geography]]'', III.2, 14-15. Marta García Morcillo, "Patterns of trade and economy in Strabo's Geography", in: ''The Routledge Companion to Strabo'', Taylor & Francis (2017), chapter 12.</ref> Jewish presence in Iberia is believed to have started during the reign of [[Solomon|King Solomon]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Sephardim |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sephardim|access-date=2021-05-11|archive-date=17 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117200257/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Sephardim.html|url-status=live}}</ref> whose excise imposed taxes on Iberian exiles. Although the first date of arrival of Jews in Iberia is the subject of ongoing archaeological research, there is evidence of established Jewish communities as early as the 1st century [[Common Era|CE]].<ref>Bowers, W. P. "Jewish Communities in Spain in the Time of Paul the Apostle", ''Journal of Theological Studies'', Vol. 26, Part 2 (October 1975) p. 395.</ref>

Modern [[transliteration]] of Hebrew romanizes the consonant פ ([[Pe (Semitic letter)|''pe'']] without a ''[[dagesh]]'' dot placed in its center) as the [[Digraph (orthography)|digraph]] ''ph'', in order to represent ''fe'' or the single [[phoneme]] ''/f/''   , the English sound that is voiceless labiodental fricative. In other languages and scripts, "Sephardi" may be translated as plural {{Hebrew name|סְפָרַדִּים|Sfaraddim|Səp̄āraddîm}}; {{langx|es|sefardíes}}; {{langx|pt|sefarditas}}; {{langx|ca|sefardites}}; {{langx|an|safardís}}; {{langx|eu|Sefardiak}}; {{langx|fr|Séfarades}}; {{langx|gl|sefardís}}; {{langx|it|sefarditi}}; {{langx|el|Σεφαρδίτες|Sephardites}}; {{langx|sh|Сефарди, Sefardi}}; {{langx|lad|sefaradies}}, {{lang|lad|sefaradim}}; and {{langx|ar|سفارديون|Safārdiyyūn}}.