Jiddish

[Dicentis a roellingua@gmail.com [gothic-l]]

So Yiddish is similar to Persian in comparison to Arabic? Arabic is semitic
but Persian Indo-European, so they don't have to do anything with eachother
as languages, but a lot of Arabic words are used in Persian and the
alphabets are similar, but Persian added symbols for sounds which weren't
used in Arabic.

Exactly the same with Yiddish and Hebrew? Hebrew is just as Arabic semitic
and Yiddish is Indo-European, as it belongs to the Germanic branch of
languages. Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet, but some symbols
are added for sounds which weren't present in Hebrew, while Yiddish has
words from Hebrew.

It's actually funny how much Persian and Yiddish are similar in this way.


2014-06-13 3:16 GMT+02:00 David Connolly dec.phd at sbcglobal.net [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> As long as we are nitpicking about Yiddish...  (-;
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> 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.
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> 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
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>  aint that what I said......
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>   On Thursday, June 12, 2014 5:52 AM, "halsteis at pvv.ntnu.no [gothic-l]" <
> gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>  > thought Yiddish was a transitioned part of Hebrew developed by then and
> > now jewish Europeans.....
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> 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.
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> However Yiddish is often written in an alphabet based on the Hebrew
> alphabet.
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> 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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> > 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
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> > can be said an no evidence that can be presented to change his mind. I
> > suggest to terminate this threat.
> > Â
> > Best,
> > DirkÂ
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