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Aren't they essentially the same language (unlike Yiddish vs. German)?
by Koshkin 2y ago
Aren't they essentially the same language (unlike Yiddish vs. German)?
- sneed_chucker 2y agoYiddish is pretty much a high German dialect.
- ignoramous 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
- mangamadaiyan 2y agoNot really. They're close, but definitely not the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu (Edit: pasted wikipedia link)
- saagarjha 2y agoIn theory sure. I think in practice it is very common that a Hindi or Urdu speaker will talk to someone else speaking "the other language" and not even realize it.
- 082349872349872 2y agoWe spent several years in a francophone ski station that attracted a fair number of Haredi tourists. My wife and I had several brief convos with them, and I'm sure from their side they were in yiddish, while from ours they were in german. My favourite anecdote from this period was when my wife crossed a family on the trail at the lake, and one of the kids asked a question of the father about "the lady", as if she couldn't understand, and they were all surprised when she answered "sure, sure". ("doch, doch", written left-to-right, from her point of view; "dokh, dokh", written right-to-left in a different script, from theirs)
- mangamadaiyan 2y agoI wasn't trying to be pedantic :) The OP's claim was that they are essentially the same language. My point was that while they are mutually intelligible to a large extent, Hindi and Urdu are distinct languages. That was pretty much it. I have no revisionist intentions here :)