[gothic-l] Re: Gothic, Yiddish and High German

[Tore Gannholm]

Hi!
Have you read this.

TALES ABOUT JEWISH KHAZARS IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE RESOLVE AN OLD 
DEBATE.

During the past two centuries, one of the major controversies 
surrounding the kingdom of the Khazars was about the ultimate 
religion(s) and geographic destination(s) of its Jewish inhabitants.  
Moses Shulvass, writing in The History of the Jewish People in 1982, 
indicated that the fate of the Khazarian Jews “basically remains an 
enigma.” (Shulvass 2:118)  Now, an exciting new discovery has at long 
last demonstrated the integration of specifically Jewish Khazars with 
other rabbinical Jews in an established Jewish community in a land 
outside of Khazaria itself.

http://www.stavgard.com/extracts/jewishkhazars/default.htm

Tore


On May 2, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Debbie Williams wrote:

> Aren't most of these languages considered to be of the Germanic 
> language  to beging with? I understand that we get the Germanic 
> languages from the Ancient Goth language. I've even found something of 
> the Goth language online.
>
>  llama_nom <600cell at oe.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>  Devil's Advocate mode: Apparent similarity isn't always the whole
>  story.  Languages relationships can't always be represented by a
>  neat branching family tree.  There may be parallel evolution, and a
>  cultural and geographical closeness can lead to similarities between
>  languages that were once more distant relations, while
>  a 'genetically' close relation can end up looking superficially very
>  different.  In mainland Scandinavia, for example, Norwegian has
>  undergone many developments in common with Danish and Swedish,
>  obscuring its one-time closer kinship with Icelandic.
>
>  That said, Yiddish certainly seems VERY CLEARLY like a variety of
>  German to me.  I can't see any way in which it's more like Gothic
>  than any other German dialect.  So unless we have any specific
>  suggestions there's no reason to doubt the conventional view yet.
>
>  Llama Nom


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