[gothic-l] Jiddish

[Tore Gannholm tore@gannholm.org [gothic-l]]

Why do you say zero contact?

A large portion of Khazaria was Germanic. Among other places all of Crimea!!



> On 21 Feb 2015, at 20:21, write2andy at yahoo.com [gothic-l] <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Yiddish didn't evolve until about 1000 AD. So, no. But can you "prove" that there was Yiddish in Eastern Europe at that time? I want you to show me that the language was used there in 800-1000 AD. (Although, how a Turkic tribe whose main religion was actually shamanism could switch to a High German language with zero contact with High German is beyond me...)
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