Re: Yiddish spelling

At 13:42 -0500 13.1.2000, Steg Belsky wrote:
>
>I guess it is....from what i remember, rafeh is used more than dagesh,
>although if someone is printing in an extremely exacting style you might
>find both used.  Although my Yiddish teacher told us that in the Soviet
>Union the orthography of Yiddish was changed drastically - the word-final
>variants of the letters MNTzPK were replaced with the normal forms, and
>they wrote the Hebrew-based words in completely Yiddish spelling, so that
>for instance _ssimhha_, "happiness", instead of being written {SsMHhH}
>was written {SYMKh?}.
In my book on transliteration, whose author obviously is of Azkenasic
origin and could be expected to know, rafe is used, except in the case of
Tov/Sov, where dagesh is used.  I assumed this has to do with relative
frequency in the language.



/BP

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