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 language | English |
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| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton |
| Number of pages | 713 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783110898736 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783110172584 |
| State | Published - 1 Jun 2011 |
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