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Two-Tiered Relexification in Yiddish : Jews, Sorbs, Khazars and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect :  Jews, Sorbs, Khazars and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect - Paul Wexler

Two-Tiered Relexification in Yiddish : Jews, Sorbs, Khazars and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect

Jews, Sorbs, Khazars and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect

By: Paul Wexler

Hardcover | 1 December 2001

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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.

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