Re: Yiddish and German

It depends how you distinguish between "dialects" and "languages".
They have major differences in phonemes, for instance Yiddish has no
front rounded vowels, no "ich-Laut", and from a grammatical point of
view, Yiddish has only a compound past tense.
Yiddish also has many lexemes absorbed from Hebrew ("afilu") and Aramaic
("mistome"), as well as Slavic languages ("davnen") and Romance languages
("bentš").


-Stephen (Steg)
 "mai hhazit, dedama didakh sumaq ttefei?!"


On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:31:31 -0800 Mike Adams <abrigon@...> writes:
> Is Yiddish just a dielect of German, or is it really a seperate
> Language?
> How many conlangs are actually more dielects than seperate lingos?
> Basically is it more a matter of politics/religious and like reasons
> than actual seperate lingos?
>
> Mike
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