Two-tiered relexification in Yiddish: Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian dialect

Paul Wexler*

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherDe Gruyter Mouton
Number of pages713
ISBN (Electronic)9783110898736
ISBN (Print)9783110172584
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2011

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