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L O W L A N D S - L - 15 February 2007 - Volume 05

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From: Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L 'Yiddish' 2007.02.15 (01) [E/German]

Judeo-Alsatian is the southwesternmost of the Western Yiddish
dialects. Most Western Yiddish dialects aren't quite so diffferent
from "Standard" Eastern Yiddish, but Judeo-Alsatian is at the extreme
end of the Western Yiddish area. It's just a coincidence that it is
the last (known) surviving variety.

Regarding Hebrew and Aramaic words in the text, it's important to
remember that most Jews worldwide will use such words to refer to
religious and cultural concepts, and that even Ashkenazim whose
ancestors stopped speaking Yiddish several generations ago may use
Yiddish phrases such as "keyn aynhore" (what would that be in WY, kaan
aynhore?), "oy vey" (au vaa?), and words like "schlmiel", "putz",
"schlong", "mensch", etc.

Mark

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Yiddish

Mark,

As much as I wish Western Yiddish was surviving, I'm reluctant -- to say the
least -- to refer to those varieties as Yiddish.  You call them
"Judeo-Alsatian," and I would consider that far more accurate, along with
"Judeo-Alemannic".

> kaan aynhore?)

kaan aanhore perhaps?

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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