[gothic-l] Re: Jiddish

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David: The age isn't necessarily important here, as Hebrew is older than all six of the living Celtic languages, but it doesn't mean those people who say the Celts were a lost tribe of Israel are right. There's so little linguistic basis for it (besides a few coincidences, which can be seen between Yiddish and Turkish in "kop" and "kafa", which are only the same by coincidence).
 However, we know the Khazar Empire disbanded in the 11th century--just around the time Yiddish was already developing over in Germany.

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