Re: [Cz-L] Groisse Shil wall

Hi Mimi you are right, Czw Yidish sounds different from Poilish o Litwish
Idish, I can remember my mother saying that they didn't like the Rumeiners,
she felt Austrian and her center was Wien. She never learned to speak
Rumeinsh Isidoro

El 17/10/10 06:53, "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> escribió:

> Hello Yossi,
>
> The pronunciation of Czernowitz Yiddish is quite distinct from the
> pronunciation of the Yiddish spoken in other areas of Europe.
> Recently when I attended a lecture on Yiddish as it is spoken in different
> parts of Europe, I found that I could correctly identify a recording of
> Czernowitz Yiddish, which the lecturer had recorded in Uman.
>
> For instance the word for "from", in literary or Litvak Yiddish is "foon",
> in Czernowitz we said "fin", the word "religious" usually pronounced
> "froom", we pronounced "frim". In addition we Czernowitzers, are the Yiddish
> speakers who are most influenced by our knowledge of German.
> That is why we said Schul, pronounced Shool for school. In other areas they
> might have said "shkola" or some other word, close to the local language
> In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, native Jews had stopped speaking
> Yiddish a long time ago.
>
> This is one of the strange things about Czernowitz Jews; all of us who were
> born in Czernowitz and vicinity, many years after it stopped being part of
> Austro-Hungary, spoke and read German, even though we did not learn it in
> school.
>
> Mimi
>

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