Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish
Author | : Paul Wexler |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 729 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311089873X |
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The book claims that Yiddish was created when Judaized Sorbs first relexified their language to High German between the 9th-12th centuries; by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars also relexified their Kiev-Polessian (northern Ukrainian and southern Belarusian) speech to Yiddish and German, Yiddish thus uses a mixed West-East Slavic grammar and suggests that converted Khazars were a major component in the Ashkenazic ethnogenesis.