R: [Cz-L] Steinberg

From: <papress_at_gmail.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 17:21:35 +0100
To: Charles Polak <charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk>
Reply-To: <papress_at_gmail.com>


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Da: Charles Polak
Inviato: domenica 8 gennaio 2017 09:23
A: 'Ruth Levin'; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Oggetto: RE: [Cz-L] Steinberg

Perfectly true about the *richness* of Yiddish, I couldn't have put it bett=
er myself.

The only point that I'd question is the 'Old French' element in Yiddish: al=
l those words are Romance (neo-Latin), like French showing a change (from t=
he original Latin and in contradistinction from standard Italian, Spanish, =
Portuguese, Romanian, etc.) of 'ca-' to 'tcha-', e.g. 'calente-' becomes 't=
choolent' . However, this is true also of the Raeto-Romance languages - Rom=
ansch in eastern Switzerland, Dolomitic Ladin and Friulian in north-east It=
aly - and of Italian dialects such as Ferrarese geographically close to the=
 Raeto-Romance area. There's every reason to think that the Germanic dialec=
tal base of Yiddish has nothing at all to do with the Rhineland, but instea=
d with north Bavaria: Regensburg and Rothenburg, which had very old and dis=
tinguished Jewish communities; and that those Jews came from the Byzantine =
Empire via Byzantine north-east Italy.

Charles Pol=C3=A1k
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