Re: Hebrew and Conlangs
| From: | Eamon Graham <robertg@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 28, 2003, 11:33 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Well, after all, Yiddish is essentially a German relex of Western Slavic.
And if I remember my "Yiddish as Contact Language" history correctly
before it was even German it was Romance... before it was Romance
what was it? Greek (Yevanic maybe)? Aramaic?
> The main Hebrew influence was in vocabulary, and not that much of it.
5 percent as I recall. 15% Slavic. The rest is German with traces
of Romance, Greek, etc... The Romance component includes traces of
it's pre-German Romance past (can't at the moment recall what the
name of this language was... was it Loez? Or is that Ladino?)
I find Jewish languages terribly fascinating, ever since the age of
10 probably.
FWIW,
Eamon
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