Hello,
[Christophe:]
> Was there? I don't remember it :((( . Too bad, it's one
> language I'd like to
> know more about...
Indeed there was.
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0206C&L=conlang&P=R1
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> > And the Lord's Prayer:
> >
> > Atamis kim köktä sen
> > Algiszle bulsun sening ating
> > kelsin sening hanlechin
> > bulsun sening tilemegin neçikkim köktä allay ierdä
> > kundegi ötmackimismi bisge bugun bergil
> > dage iazuclarimisni bizgä bozzatkil
> > neçik bis bozzattirbis bizgä iaman etchenlergä
> > dage iecnik sinamakina bisni kuurmagil
> > bassa barça iamandan bisni kuthargil.
> > Amen.
In one word, bullshit :-) Or a conlang. That'd be better ;-)
[Peter:]
> I'd say that the theory presented here is about half-right.
Traditionally,
> it was assumed that after the Byzantines and Slavs finished mopping up
the
> Khazarian Empire, all the Khazars just crawled into a corner and died.
However,
> there is a significant amount of evidence that even before the end of
their
> empire, some Khazarians were migrating--there is some suggestions that
a family
> or clan of Khazars joined with the Magyar tribes on their way west to
what is
> today modern Hungary.
Yes, there was finding of an inscription somehere in northern Serbia
(the name escapes just at the moment) the content of which coincides
with a name given in King Joseph's letter.
> Koestler's theory is that they basically went west after
> the fall of the empire, becoming the ancestors of most European Jews.
A more
> recent book, "The Jews of Khazaria," posits a theory between the two
extremes;
> namely, that the Khazarian Jews went west and bumped into the French
and German
> Jews heading east, intermingled, and out of the mix came Ashkenazi
Very very improbable. The Ashkenazi came anywhere near "Khazaria" only
after the First Divide of Poland.
Pavel
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