[gothic-l] Jiddish

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Tore, even IF Yiddish would be in fact a Germanic dialect spoken by
Germanic people of which there were indeed some in Eastern Europe before
1000 AD, there should be, no, there has to be Turkic influence, because
Khazaria was in the first place an empire of a Turkic tribe and a lot of
it's inhabitants were Turks. So you will first need to prove that there are
Turkic elements in Yiddish which you, so far, haven't done.

2015-02-21 20:44 GMT+01:00 Tore Gannholm tore at gannholm.org [gothic-l] <
gothic-l at yahoogroups.com>:

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> Why do you say zero contact?
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> A large portion of Khazaria was Germanic. Among other places all of
> Crimea!!
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> On 21 Feb 2015, at 20:21, write2andy at yahoo.com [gothic-l] <
> gothic-l at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Yiddish didn't evolve until about 1000 AD. So, no. But can you "prove"
> that there was Yiddish in Eastern Europe at that time? I want you to show
> me that the language was used there in 800-1000 AD. (Although, how a Turkic
> tribe whose main religion was actually shamanism could switch to a High
> German language with zero contact with High German is beyond me...)
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