Re: [T] -> [f] (was: Chinese Dialect Question)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 18:24 |
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Mark J. Reed scripsit:
> But what do you mean by "an English Koine"? I thought
> Koine was Greek.
A koine is a language variety that results from a fusion of dialects,
taking some features from each. Koine Greek is the prototypical koine;
Yiddish is essentially the modern descendant of a koine of Middle
High German dialects, mixed with Slavic and Hebrew.
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