Jiddish related to Gothic?

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

Hi Dirk,
This was not the question.

What language did they speak in Khazaria when they converted to Judaism beginning 800s and became the worlds largest Jewish state.

Alla later Jews in Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Lituania originates from those converted in Khazaria.

It was a mixed country with Turkish, a few slavic languages and a large Gothic speaking group together with Hebrew Rabbis that were imported.

Tore


On 10 Jun 2014, at 10:23, d.faltin at hispeed.ch [gothic-l] <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Over at the Germanic-L somebody advocated the theory that Jiddish emerged as the result of an amalgamation of Gothic, Slavic and Turkish. Personally, I don't think that this is true. Instead, I think Jiddish is derived from south Middle High German with later additions of Slavic (and perhaps other) elements. Can any of the linguistically trained members of this list settle this argument? In particular, is there a viable case for hypothesizing that Gothic played a role in the development of Jiddish?
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> Thanks a lot
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> Dirk
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