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Yeah, my German Jewish friend told me that spoken Yiddish sounds like medieval peasant German, and reading Yiddish written in Hebrew script makes him feel like
by yaacov 6y ago
Yeah, my German Jewish friend told me that spoken Yiddish sounds like medieval peasant German, and reading Yiddish written in Hebrew script makes him feel like he’s having a stroke.
- akavel 6y agoThis seems to align with what the article says in: "[...] it is estimated that the Germanic element makes up some 70 to 75% of the overall lexicon [...]" and: "[...] note that early Yiddish developed from Middle High German dialects [...]"