Jiddish

[David Connolly dec.phd@sbcglobal.net [gothic-l]]

As long as we are nitpicking about Yiddish...  (-;

Actually, the right way to talk about the Yiddish alphabet:  Yiddish is written in a version of the Hebrew alphabet modified somewhat for the phonology of Yiddish.  Yiddish is sometimes transcribed into the Latin alphabet for the convenience of those who don't know the Hebrew alphabet.


David



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 From: "OSCAR HERRE duke.co at sbcglobal.net [gothic-l]" <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>
To: "gothic-l at yahoogroups.com" <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [gothic-l] Jiddish
 


  
aint that what I said......


On Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:52 AM, "halsteis at pvv.ntnu.no [gothic-l]" <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 


  
> thought Yiddish was a transitioned part of Hebrew developed by then and
> now jewish Europeans.....

No, Yiddish is an Indo-European language, and considered as a Germanic
language by most scholars (some considers it as Slavic, but most only
think it has a strong Slavic influence). Hebrew is a Semitic language.

However Yiddish is often written in an alphabet based on the Hebrew alphabet.

Halstein.
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> On Thursday, June 12, 2014 1:36 AM, "d.faltin at hispeed.ch [gothic-l]"
> <gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Â 
> Hi Edmund,
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> I fully agree with your description. I failed to convince Tore with
> similar arguments on the Germanic-L and I fear that there is nothing that
> can be said an no evidence that can be presented to change his mind. I
> suggest to terminate this threat.
> Â 
> Best,
> Dirk 
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>




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