Re: Demotic/Koine/Prakit

Raymond Brown wrote:

> In the sense that it's used as an IAL, it is a 'lingua franca'.  But the
> latter term sometimes implies some degree of creolization - a koine does
> not.
In fact, I understand "koine" to refer specifically to the result
of a fusion of dialects.  For example,  Yiddish started out as a
Judeo-German koine, and then differentiated into dialects when it
expanded beyond Germany.

(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.)

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