"who is a Slavic speaker?"

[Vera Beljakova]

Sorry,
Yiddish is based on German and orginated in German-speaking territory.

Vera Beljakova
Johannesburg




 

 ----- Original Message ------
 From:Deborah Hoffman
 Sent:Monday, November 19, 2007 19:05
 To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU; 
 Subject:[SEELANGS] to google/should be "who is a Slavic speaker?"
 


 
 
 
 I've been trying to convince my husband for years that Yiddish is a Slavic language, at least certain geographical permutations of it. If this could replace the who is a Jew controversy, I would be all for it. 



>Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:54:36 +0200 
From: Moshe Taube 
Subject: Re: to google 
> 
>In the latest newcomer to SEELANGS, Modern Hebrew (which according to 
Paul Wexler is a Slavic language, cf. http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/ 
>yedion/03-04/syllabi/single_syllabi/06273138.html ) we do it the old 
>fashioned Semitic way: we extract the consonantal root, G, G, L, and 
then conjugate it in the pi'el formation, hence gigalti, gigalta, 
gigalt, megagelim, legagel etc. 
> 
Cheers, 
>Moshe Taube 




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