[gothic-l] Gothic, Yiddish and High German

[Debbie Williams]

Hmmmmmmm I've never heard of that connection. If you find out let me know.

macmaster at riseup.net wrote:Hi all,
I am curious if anyone knows anything about the Yiddish language and its
possible ties to Gothic.
While the conventional model of the origins of Yiddish has it being
brought to eastern and central Europe from the Rhineland roughly at the
time of the Crusades and makes it a medieval Rhenish dialect, an
acquaintance of mine asserts that the Yiddish language has more in common
(in grammar, morphology, vocabulary, etc) with the East Germanic languages
of the early middle ages than with the German of the Rhine.
Not reading Hebrew and knowing less than "ein bissel Yiddishe", I can't
judge his hypothesis.  Maybe someone knows more and can speak on this?

thanks,
Tom MacMaster






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