Subject: Re: [OT] Yiddish (was Re: [lojban] Re: Alis in Yiddishland)

From: Björn Gohla <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:17:50 +0200

On Friday 29 June 2001 02:41, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> YIDDISH (JIDDISCH, JUDEO-GERMAN) [YDD]
> ...
> Indo-European, Germanic, West, Continental, High.
> ...
> It branched off medieval High German (mainly Rhenish dialects) and received
> Modern German influences during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
>
>
> Is there a misalignment between the German and English terminology for
> historical German dialects?
>

"indo-european" used to be "indo-germanisch" in german, although that term 
seems to be deprecated now.

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