Yiddish (was: Diglossia)

nicole perrin wrote:

> Also, I take it from the above sentence
> that Yiddish has different word order than German as well?
Yes, indeed.  For example, Yiddish is not SOV in subordinate clauses:

        Es ist schwer, ein Jude zu sein.
        Es iz shver tzu zayn a Yid.
        It is hard to be a Jew.

Indeed, it may be difficult to know whether a specific word or
phrase is Yiddish or German (after performing simple transformations like
"German front rounded vowels are unrounded in Yiddish" or "German /au/ =
Standard Yiddish /oi/).   But there is is rarely any doubt about whether
a whole sentence is Yiddish or German, because of their distinctive syntaxes.

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