[gothic-l] Re: Jiddish

[write2andy@yahoo.com [gothic-l]]

Tore, that's a nice question. It's so easy to answer, which is why I like it so: the location in the west where they spoke Yiddish was the Rhineland and Bavaria for the most part. Judeo-French speakers (who in turn migrated north from Rome, and originally going back to Israel) switched to Old High German, and then Yiddish developed from there. They brought their language to Eastern Europe, and the Knaanic speakers adopted it.
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