AW: [gothic-l] Jiddish related to Gothic?

['Andreas Schwarcz' andreas.schwarcz@univie.ac.at [gothic-l]]

Dear Dirk,

 

You at least are nearer the linguistic consensus about Yiddish or Jiddisch, which is not a single language but a group of languages spoken and written by the Ashkenaz Jews for nearly thousand years. A very good overview of a difficult question and ist research history can be found in wikipedia under: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_language

 

The oldest known written document is a manuscript of a prayer book from Worms dating from 1272 CE, by the way

 

 

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University of Vienna

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Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Juni 2014 14:07
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Betreff: Re: [gothic-l] Jiddish related to Gothic?

 

  

Hi Tore,

 

this was exactly the question. 

 

You wrote: "In Khazaria they spoke Turkish, various Slavic languages and Gothic. If you mix it you obtain Jiddish."

 

To which I replied that Jiddish has nothing to do with Gothic, but instead that Jiddish is derived from south middle High German to which you replied by saying that I was completely wrong.

 

Cheers,

Dirk



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