Re: Demotic/Koine/Prakit
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 8, 2000, 12:09 |
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At 15:32 07.4.2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>(The Yiddish of Germany went extinct in the late 19th or early 20th
>centuries; by the time of the Holocaust, essentially all German Jews
>spoke standard or regional German.)
IME *speakers* of Standard German are rare in any ethnic/religious
group. Most would be actors or news readers. There is more like a
continuum, with very few being 100% acrolectal. Some 20% local color is
normal.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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