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I've heard it said before that Yiddish sounds like Bavarian. Are you a native German speaker? If you hear spoken Yiddish, can you identify it as such, or does
by blisterpeanuts 6y ago
I've heard it said before that Yiddish sounds like Bavarian. Are you a native German speaker? If you hear spoken Yiddish, can you identify it as such, or does it just sound like some weird Bavarian dialect?
- canjobear 6y agoI’ve only heard Yiddish in movies and TV. To my ears, it does have a Bavarian flavor, but also lots of surprising stuff that you wouldn’t have in Bavarian. For example the vowel that would be long /o:/ in most German dialects comes out in Yiddish as /oi/.
- Hublium 6y agoI'm being a bit of a smartass here, but in some areas of Upper Austria (part of the Bavarian language area), the MHG long "o" is pronounced as "oi". https://media04.meinbezirk.at/article/2013/01/14/7/5943487_XXL.jpg?1561467254 https://media04.meinbezirk.at/article/2013/01/14/7/5943487_X...
- canjobear 6y agoHaha, I was expecting someone would tell me that it does happen somewhere deep in Austria. Cool map!
- microtherion 6y agoAs a Swiss German, Yiddish sounds a lot like Swiss German to me, though it's certainly easily distinguished (and I couldn't speak it easily).