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The book claims that Yiddish was created when Judaized Sorbs first relexified their language to High German between the 9th-12th centuries; by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars also relexified their Kiev-Polessian (northern Ukrainian and southern Belarusian) speech to Yiddish and German, Yiddish thus uses a mixed West-East Slavic grammar and suggests that converted Khazars were a major component in the Ashkenazic ethnogenesis.
Price: $260.00
Pages: 724
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date:
17 May 2002
ISBN: 9783110172584
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LAN000000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LAN009010 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
Paul Wexler is Professor at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.